Kentucky chiropractor sees empire crumble. Man bankrupt, charged with health-care fraud

[Ian David]

By Patrick Howington
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The Courier-Journal

Dr. Paul Hollern once headed a chiropractic empire, receiving part of the profits of about 80 practitioners across the country who had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each for his "Uncle Paul Chiropractic Business Training."

But now Hollern is bankrupt and charged with health-care fraud for allegedly teaching young chiropractors to sell patients unnecessary services.

A federal grand jury also charged Hollern in February with videotaping patients at his Louisville-area chiropractic offices without their knowledge, violating patient privacy law.

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They said he recruited them while they were students at Hollern's alma mater, Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis. The documents said he would walk into classrooms and proclaim: "If you want to be successful in practice and a millionaire by 40, come see me during lunch."

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Hollern also said he gave more than $49,000 to Little Flock Baptist Church in Shepherdsville, whose former pastor was his patient. He said he pledged $1 million to Logan College, much of it intended to go toward renovating the school's library.

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[UTUSN]

1. Did Jeb Crow Shrub change his name?

JebCrow was involved in some kind of Medicare scam, one among many of his enterprises.

[deadmessengers]

2. About damn time

What's described in the article isn't especally outrageous - it's the chiropractor business plan. They sell ineffective, un-necessary treatment and call it medicine, and tell you that you've got to keep coming back for years (and pay, and pay, and pay) to really "fix" the nonexistant underlying problem (usually subluxations) that they found on your x-rays. It drives me NUTS that my insurance company will willingly be party to their fraud and pay for this quackery.