Preying on the Vulnerable: Tennessee Clinic Owner Coerced Patients to Have Unnecessary Back Injections, Overbilled $35 Million
Michael Kestner, a 72-year-old owner of Pain MD and MedManagement, Inc. clinics in Franklin, Tenn., has been convicted of orchestrating a healthcare fraud scheme that involved pressuring vulnerable patients into receiving unnecessary back injections, primarily targeting individuals undergoing opioid addiction treatment.