Slidell Doctor Sentenced For $6.6 Million In Health Care Fraud

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANAROBERT TASSIN, M.D. (“TASSIN”), age 67, of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced on April 9, 2026, for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1347 and 1349, in connection with a scheme to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary cancer genetic (“CGx”) tests, announced United States Attorney David I. Courcelle.