Former physician John Keun Sang Lee pleaded guilty in federal court to a health care fraud charge associated with a pain management practice. According to former patients and employees, Lee required patients to submit to steroid injections, even when patients reported that the injections were not helping but, rather, causing them more pain and other injuries. Lee also instructed employees to withhold patient medication if patients objected to the injections. Read a Department of Justice press release.
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