Anchorage doctor and husband indicted on federal health care fraud and tax evasion charges

The exterior of nan James M. Fitzgerald United States Courthouse & Federal Building successful downtown Anchorage connected August 31, 2022. (Valerie Kern/ Alaska Public Media)

A expansive assemblage has indicted an Anchorage expert and her hubby successful a lawsuit that allegedly progressive deceiving patients astir nan medications being injected into their bodies.

That’s according to an indictment handed up successful national tribunal July 17 against rheumatologist Claribel Tan and her hubby Daniel Tan, who did administrative activity astatine his wife’s clinic, charging them pinch healthcare fraud and taxation evasion.

Federal prosecutors pinch nan Alaska U.S. Attorney’s Office said successful a connection Monday that nan mates tricked patients astir nan necessity of definite medications, revenge mendacious security claims for medicine and aesculapian services and included mendacious accusation successful taxation filings successful 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Neither nan indictment nor prosecutors said what substances aliases medicine was deceptively injected. The tribunal filing says patients had not consented to taking definite medications Tan gave them.

According to nan indictment, Tan revenge claims to wellness attraction use programs that inflated nan number of injections she gave patients and nan magnitude of clip she spent pinch them.

The prosecutors allege nan Tans illegally obtained much than $10 million. Through abstracted civilian action, nan U.S. Justice Department has seized astir $8.5 cardinal from nan Tans, according to nan connection from nan U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Court records show nan Tans were some arrested Monday.