Because MIMA was not in compliance with physician supervision requirements, the federal complaint alleged that Dr. Scarbrough created a system using hand-held devices thatcreated the illusion of real-time physician supervision of IGRT, even though the defendants never intended to supervise the administration of this complex radiation therapy as required by Medicare.
Sullivan and Simpson worked with a forensic computer expert to unmask what the government called MIMAs sham practices. MIMA emailed images of patients to its doctors hand-held devices,but with our expert we identified for the government the types of data showing whether the doctors actually viewed these images, said Sullivan. As the Justice Department concluded, the AT&T data records clearly showed that the MIMA doctors made little use of these devices to review patients images.
