An advanced wound clinic in Pasadena is under a medical fraud investigation for allegedly requesting Medicare reimburses for procedures that never took place, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday amid the federal government’s targeted fraud probes into medical facilities across Southern California.
As part of the investigation, a federal court has granted a request from the DOJ to seize up to $2,039,792 from a Wells Fargo bank account linked to the clinic, Expert Wound Care PC.
Federal prosecutors argued Expert Wound Care submitted more than $46 million in Medicare claims between September 2025 and April 226 for procedures, including skin substitutes and skin grafts. The clinic claimed that it provides serviced to 78 people, the DOJ said. Medicare eventually approved payments for over $34 million, DOJ added.
And the amount of money Expert Wound Care requested for skin substitute grafts between July 2025 and March 2026 was more than double the national average, the investigators said.
And the medical center has allegedly continued to increase Medicare billing. Between October 2025 and February 2026, Expert Wound Care billed Medicare for $2.6 million and was paid approximately $2 million for skin substitute grafts and 52 skin graft application services purportedly provided to one beneficiary.
The investigation started when a Wells Fargo representative alerted the authorities that the clinic’s account had been “flagged for possible fraud and would be temporarily frozen,” according to the affidavit.
The seizure of $2 million came as the DOJ called Southern California “high-risk environment” for health care fraud when federal authorities arrested eight people for defrauding Medicare and insurance companies earlier this month.
The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office also has pledged to crack down on health care fraud with the National Fraud Enforcement Division within the DOJ.
Expert Wound Care PC has been operating in California since July, according to state records.