02/20/2013    

STATE PODIATRY NEWS

Complaints Continue to Pile Up Against WI Podiatrist

Dr. John S. Lanham, A Milwaukee area podiatrist with a record of cheating patients is still racking up patient complaints at a rate that dwarfs his peers. A FOX6 Investigation has found state regulators have done nothing about it for the past six years. Last spring, Craig Nickelbein went to see Dr. Lanham at his Elkhorn clinic due to nagging foot pain caused by a neuroma. The doctor gave him a pair of cortisone shots and sent Medicare the bill… for more than $10,000!

(L-R) Dr. John Lanham and Steven Frydman

There’s hardly anyone more fed up than Dr. Steven Frydman, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Society of Podiatric Medicine. “There is nothing we can do in an office on an initial visit that is worth that kind of money,” Frydman said. In 2007, the state suspended Dr. Lanham for 270 days due to a pattern of cases involving “fraud and deceit.”  The suspension was lifted after just 90 days. Since then, 58 additional patients have filed complaints against Lanham. In that same time, no other podiatrist in Wisconsin has gotten more than four.

Source: Stephen Davis and Bryan Polcyn, Fox 6 News