More Than $2 Million Seized From Pasadena Clinic Accused of Medicare Fraud

Federal prosecutors were authorized to seize more than $2 million from a Pasadena-based wound-care clinic accused of defrauding Medicare for reimbursements for skin graft substitutes and skin grafts that never were performed, officials announced Tuesday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Alicia Rosenberg granted the government’s request Monday to seize the funds from a bank account linked to Expert Wound Care PC.

According to an affidavit filed with a federal seizure warrant, from September 2025 to this month, Expert Wound Care submitted more than $46.6 million in claims to Medicare for skin substitute products and wound-care services purportedly provided to 78 beneficiaries, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Medicare approved payments of nearly $34 million on the claims, which included skin substitutes and skin grafts as well as skin application procedures, the DOJ said.

From January 2025 to last June, the national average for a billing provider’s allowed amount per claim for skin substitute grafts was $16,837. From July 2025 to March 2026, Expert Wound Care averaged about $37,449 in allowed amount per claim for substitute skin grafts, papers filed in Los Angeles federal court show.