Recently his license was revoked and now there’s about a 10 year sentence to be served by the doctor. Patients were paid between $300.00 and $1000.00 to participate and have the “sweaty palm” and a few other procedures performed. 
The “Sweaty Palms” Surgeon Loses His License – Serving 10 Years for Operating on a Healthy Patient
There are 2 other physicians that were involved in the scam. It’s difficult enough at times to get needed procedures approved, so this cuts into what everyone has to to pay. BD
SANTA ANA – A former Seal Beach doctor pleaded guilty to insurance fraud today and admitted that he performed hundreds of unnecessary surgeries on patients for the money.
Dr. William Wilson Hampton Jr., 53, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel to 16 years in prison. He also admitted to a sentencing enhancement that well in excess of $2.5 million was taken from the victims.
Defense attorney Donald Etra said the plea was a practical and efficient end to the prosecution because Hampton, who practiced medicine out of the now closed Unity Outpatient Center in Buena Park, is currently serving a 10-year term in federal prison in a companion case.
"What he did was outrageous," Welsh said. "Those surgeries were extremely invasive and dangerous."
Hampton sat at a counsel table in a mustard-colored jail uniform tapping his left foot as he admitted complicity in what prosecutors called a $30 million swindle of more than a dozen insurance companies such as Aetna, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Healthnet and Cigna.
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