 doctor gets 25 years in federal prison for fraud using dirty surgical devices anita louise jackson md an ear nose and throat doctor in nc has been sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to repay $4 7 million to medicare after a federal jury found her guilty of 20 criminal charges these charges included endangering patients health by reusing single use surgical devices stealing their identities and defrauding medicare she performed nearly 1500 balloon sinuplasty surgeries on more than 900 medicare patients from 2011 to 2018 however she only purchased 36 single use devices for the procedures reusing the devices on large numbers of patients 