Orange County cancer doctor pleads guilty in $1-million Medicare fraud

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An Orange County oncologist has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicare and other insurers by billing them for expensive cancer medications that he never provided to patients, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday.

Dr. Glen R. Justice, who operated the Pacific Coast Hematology/Oncology Medical Group in Fountain Valley, pleaded guilty Thursday to five charges related to the theft of up to $1 million during at hearing at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office.

In some cases, Justice billed for injectable medicine that he never provided; in other cases, he billed for more expensive medicine than he actually used to treat patients, Mrozek said.

The five charges each carry a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Justice, 65, who lives in Corona del Mar, is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 28.

-- Stuart Pfeifer