Orthopedic exec gets 8 months in prison for role in kickback scheme
By Admin | September 09, 2021
Bruce Thomas, the owner of Pinnacle Orthopedic Services, an orthopedic devices and orthotics company, was sentenced to eight months in prison Sept. 10 for his role in a kickback scheme, according to Bethesda Magazine.
Mr. Thomas pleaded guilty in May to giving David Laufer, former chief of prosthetics and orthotics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., $20,000 in cash, airplane tickets and other items in exchange for the hospital's business.
Pinnacle received $20 million from Walter Reed for...(More)
For more info please read, Orthopedic exec gets 8 months in prison for role in kickback scheme, by Becker's SpineReview
