Jailed ex-chiropractor targeted in insurance fraud investigation

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06024/643187.stm

Meet a real sweetheart, Markell D. Boulis.


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Markell D. Boulis made national news in the 1990s when he paid $200,000 for his freedom in an Atlanta cocaine case so controversial that it prompted Georgia to change its sentencing rules.

He might soon be in the national spotlight again.

Mr. Boulis, an admitted drug dealer, suspended Pittsburgh chiropractor and founder of the Hemorrhoid Relief Centers of Pittsburgh, is a central figure in one of the largest health insurance fraud cases in the United States.

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According to investigators, Mr. Boulis offered chiropractors an $8,000 package of services that promised to increase their collections dramatically by using an extra billing code to charge insurance companies for past treatments, a practice called "back-billing."

Mr. Boulis claimed it was legal -- back-billing is sometimes permitted to correct previous billing errors for treatments that were rendered. But Mr. Boulis, according to investigators, would submit back-bills for every patient in a chiropractor's practice, and usually for treatments that were never provided

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Mr. Boulis' most recent venture was the incorporation four years ago of the Hemorrhoid Relief Centers, which has its main office on Fort Couch Road in Upper St. Clair and advertises under the slogan "You'll feel better in the end."

[CottonBear]

1. He's the founder of the Hemorrhoid Relief Centers of Pittsburgh.

The Hemorrhoid Relief Centers slogan is "You'll feel better in the end."
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:( ;( :o He may the center's services after he goes to jail. :( ;( :o