OPHTHALMOLOGIST

Dr. Ellen Koo is an ophthalmologist and LASIK specialist at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Palm Beach Gardens. For more information about LASIK surgery, click here or visit the UHealth blog.

The Harvard-trained, Dominican-born ophthalmologist, who operated eye clinics from Delray Beach to Port St. Lucie, would see up to 100 patients per day and billed the government nearly $21 million in 2012 alone. As part of his sentence, he was ordered to pay more than $42 million in restitution to Medicare.