BOISE -- A southwestern Idaho optometrist has pleaded guilty to scheming to defraud health care benefit programs in an agreement that calls for him to pay $1 million in restitution.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says 59-year-old Christopher Card of Caldwell entered his guilty plea Thursday. His sentencing is set for Oct. 30 in federal court in Boise.
The plea agreement says that between 1993 and Aug. 31, 2010, Card gave phony diagnoses of glaucoma, colorblindness or other eye diseases so he could bill Medicaid, Medicare and other insurance programs for expensive tests and treatments that he never actually administered.
