◆ A North Carolina physician who at times has been the nation’s top-paid provider of balloon sinuplasty services was indicted for adulteration of medical devices, paying illegal remunerations, making and using materially false health care documents, mail fraud and conspiracy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said Jan. 5.^[1] According to the indictment, from 2014 to 2018, Anita Louise Jackson of Raleigh, who owned the practice Greater Carolina Ear, Nose, and Throat, “billed Medicare more than $46 million for allegedly rendering more than 1,200 incidents of ‘balloon sinuplasty’ services to more than 700 patients,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.