11.22.11 Four Louisiana doctors wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud Strike Force.

Yet all four doctors remain licensed to practice medicine, including two who pleaded guilty and a third convicted at a jury trial in August. The fourth doctor, who had previous probations of his license, is fighting the charges in his indictment.

In a similar case that dates from before creation of the Strike Force, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports a Louisiana physician in 2009 retained his medical license even though he was convicted of health care fraud.