October 10, 2018 Bill Thompson Oct 11, 2018 Courts, Daily, Law, Medical Error, Quality Fraud Comments Off on October 10, 2018 For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group. In fact, he was inflating charges and billing for surgeries he didn’t perform, perpetrating a years-long fraud that culminated in a guilty plea on a single count in federal court in 2013. That was the end of his surgical practice.