Six Bay Area medical professionals have been indicted for an alleged kickback scheme in which three paid and three received kickbacks for health care referrals, United States Attorney Alex Tse announced on August 30.
Three doctors, identified as Abdelsalam Mogasbe, 51, of San Jose, Jaime Cortes, 52, of Vacaville, and James Nickolopous, 70, of San Leandro, were each charged with one count of conspiracy to pay and received remuneration for the referral of Medicare benefits and were each charged with three counts of receipt of remuneration for referral of a Medicare patient, prosecutors said.
