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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced
that a Bergen County man has been sentenced
for administering anesthesia after his license
had expired.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, John C. Quinn, 49, of Glen Rock,
was ordered by Superior Court Judge Harry
G. Carroll in Bergen County on Friday to
serve three years probation and to pay $37,601
in restitution and a $35,000 civil insurance
fraud penalty. The sentence is pursuant
to Quinn’s April 24 guilty plea to
a criminal accusation which charged him
with third-degree theft by deception.
In pleading guilty before Judge Carroll,
Quinn, the former owner/operator of Wyckoff
Surgical Center as well as Pompton Plains
Surgical Center admitted that between Oct.
31, 2002, and Jan. 11, 2004, he committed
theft from at least 10 insurance companies.
Quinn admitted that he attempted to obtain
approximately $37,600 insurance companies
by billing the insurance companies for administering
anesthesia to at least 27 patients even
though he was not licensed to do so.
Quinn
was licensed to practice nursing in New
Jersey through August 2002, when his licensed
expired. Quinn was also certified as a Nurse
Anesthetist in January 1987, which allowed
him to administer anesthesia, but that license
had also expired. As a result of his actions,
Quinn had his license to practice nursing
suspended in 2004 for five years by the
nursing board.
Detective
Laura Parisi, Civil Investigator Cynthia
Rome, and Deputy Attorney General Joan M.
Burke were assigned to the investigation.
Burke represented the State at the sentencing.
This
case was referred to the Enforcement Bureau
of the Division of Consumer Affairs by the
Special Investigative Unit of the State
Farm Insurance Company which initially uncovered
the fraud. The Enforcement Bureau referred
the matter to the OIFP after conducting
its own preliminary investigation. Prosecutor
Brown thanked State Farm, Allstate, AMICA,
Cigna, Health Net, Horizon, Liberty Mutual,
MetLife, Oxford, United Health Care, and
Qualcare Insurance Companies for their assistance
in this matter.
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