Friday, July 24, 2015 | 3:11 p.m.
A federal judge says mistake or not a clinic chief connected to the largest medical office hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada history will pay $50,000 in restitution to overbilled insurers and companies, not $2.2 million prosecutors sought.
District Judge Larry Hicks ruled Wednesday that Tonya Rushing's sentence would stand. Rushing pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden argued the $50,000 was intended to be credited toward a final amount yet to be determined. He says in a filing that divvying out the $50,000 to 594 insurers and companies owed money would give just 169 of them more than $10 each.
Hicks says prosecutors didn't seek the fix within 14 days and had agreed to the earlier language setting the restitution at $50,000.
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