A federal judge today sentenced a Detroit doctor to more than 16 years in prison for health care fraud, saying crimes like his are making health insurance unaffordable and threatening the viability of major employers such as the automotive industry.
“I like to find some good in somebody when I sentence them and I find no good in you,” U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani told Dr. Zack Brown as she sentenced him to 200 months in prison.
Brown, 61, who was also ordered to pay more than $1.1 million in restitution, was convicted in May of 80 counts of conspiracy, health care fraud and mail fraud for a scheme in which he recruited phony patients to bilk Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, as well as Medicare.
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