A Kansas City-area pediatrician pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in causing fraudulent Medicare claims to be submitted for more than 1,000 beneficiaries for medications and equipment they didn’t need, which was part of a larger nationwide scheme to defraud Medicare. Frederick Scott Dattel, 57, of Leawood, Kansas, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty to a federal information that charges him with making a false statement related to a healthcare matter. Dattel, a licensed medical doctor with a specialty in pediatrics, owns and operates his own medical practice, Kansas City Pediatrics, LLC, in Kansas City, Mo. Between August 2017 and February 2018, Dattel worked as a physician for RediDoc, LLC, a commercial telemedicine company. RediDoc’s owners unlawfully profited by paying kickbacks and bribes to doctors so those doctors would sign high volumes of expensive prescriptions and durable medical equipment orders that were not medically necessary.
