Lawrence County Grand Jury Indicts Anesthesiologist
- {Kentucky}...Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway says Lee Adam Balaklaw, an anesthesiologist from Louisa who formerly owned two eastern Kentucky pain clinics, has been incited by a Lawrence County Grand Jury on 20 counts of Medicaid fraud following an investigation into his billing practices at Anesthesia Associates of Louisa. The indictment alleges Balaklaw intentionally or wantonly submitted fraudulent and false claims to Medicaid by claiming he treated multiple patients using pain treatment injections into the tendon. The charges allege that from January 2007 through July 2010, Balaklaw fraudulently billed $90,000 for the 29 patients.
