26 Charged in $23.2 Million Kickback Scheme

A husband and wife are accused of paying physicians $2.1 million in kickbacks to prescribe compound creams, repackaged drugs and unnecessary urine toxicology tests in a scheme that bilked California workers' compensation carriers out of $23.2 million. Christopher King, 38, and his wife, Tanya King, 37, allegedly masterminded the scheme using companies they owned including Monarch Medical Group Inc., King Medical Management Inc. and One Source Laboratories Inc. Complaints filed with the Orange County Superior Court claim they paid kickbacks to 22 providers, including six qualified medi...