Reynaud

Raymond Luden Reynaud, M.D., a psychiatrist enrolled as a provider of publicly funded health services under California’s Medi-Cal statute (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14000 et seq.), is accused by information of grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. 1) and of 10 counts of presenting false Medi-Cal claims (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14107). The evidence introduced against him at preliminary examination included 10 of Reynaud’s claims for services to named patients together with related cancelled checks, explanations of benefits, and computer compilations, and admissions cards for the patients at the care facilities in which the patients were housed. In the superior court Reynaud moved under Penal Code section 1538.5 to suppress these records as evidence. His motion was denied and he seeks review of the denial by petition for a writ of mandate. We issued the alternative writ. At our request the parties have submitted further briefing on issues germane to the propriety of writ review, We conclude that insofar as predicated on search and seizure grounds Reynaud’s suppression motion was properly denied. We further conclude that Reynaud has not established that this is a proper case for…