Lexington Physician Sentenced for Healthcare Fraud Conspiracy
According to his guilty plea agreement, Mohamed was a licensed physician, with a specialty in nephrology, who practiced in Lexington. In addition to his nephrology …
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Maryland Physician Faces New Charges in Opioid Prescription Scheme
WASHINGTON, DC – Dr. Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, a 64-year-old physician from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, has been indicted on 29 counts in a superseding indictment for …
Arizona Man Charged with Defrauding Local Physician Out of $207,000
PHOENIX, Ariz. – A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned an indictment against Jeremie Sowerby, 45, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, on November 14, 2023, for …
Trump’s physician says he is in ‘excellent health,’ has lost weight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s physician wrote in a note released on Monday that the former president is in “excellent heath” and that “he will …
Ohio Physician Convicted for Unlawfully Distributing Opioids in High-Volume Pain Clinic
COLUMBUS, OH – Thomas Romano, a 73-year-old physician from Wheeling, West Virginia, was convicted by a federal jury today for illegally distributing opioids and other …
Connecticut Physician and Urgent Care Practice Pay Over $4.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and …
Physician and Office Manager Agree to Pay More Than $420,000 to Settle Kickback Allegations Involving New Jersey, Texas, and South Carolina Laboratories
NEWARK, N.J. – A Texas doctor and his office manager, who was also his wife, have agreed to pay more than $422,789 to resolve False …
Pike County Physician Convicted For Unlawful Distribution Of Controlled Substances Resulting In Death
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dr. Martin Evers, age 64, of Pike County, Pennsylvania, was …
Former Montgomery Physician at the Center of an Oxycodone Prescription Scheme Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Prison
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA – Yesterday, former physician D’livro Lemat Beauchamp, 56, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 135 months in prison …
Former Physician Sentenced For Second Health Care Fraud Conviction
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SPYROS PANOS was sentenced to 111 months in prison for …
Levittown Physician Agrees to Pay Nearly $490,000 to Resolve Controlled Substances Act Violations
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Kenneth Fox, D.O., has agreed to pay $489,025 to resolve allegations that he violated the …
Physician and Medical Office to Pay Over $2.6 Million to Settle False Claims Act and Kickback Allegations
United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that FEEL WELL HEALTH CENTER OF SOUTHINGTON, P.C. (formerly doing business …
Hudson Physician and Ohio Pharmaceutical Rep Plead Guilty to Roles in Prescription Drug Kickback Conspiracy
AKRON – Deepak Raheja, 66, of Hudson, Ohio, and Frank Mazzucco, 44, of Dublin, Ohio, pleaded guilty on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, to their roles …
Texarkana Physician Found Guilty of Prescribing a Controlled Substance Without a Legitimate Medical Purpose
TEXARKANA, AR – A federal jury convicted a Texarkana Doctor yesterday on two counts of Distribution of a Schedule II Controlled Substance Without an Effective …
Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging Local Physician and LPN with Illegally Obtaining and Distributing Controlled Substances
SHREVEPORT, La. – Dr. Jeffrey L. Evans, Jr., 65, of Mansfield, Louisiana, and Debra E. Craig, 66, of Converse, Louisiana, were each indicted by a …
‘Blatantly Intolerant’: Physician Assistant Sues Michigan Health For Allegedly Firing Her Over Religious Beliefs
‘Blatantly Intolerant’: Physician Assistant Sues Michigan Health For Allegedly Firing Her Over Religious Beliefs Laurel Duggan on October 12, 2022 A physician assistant is …
Biogen Inc. Agrees to Pay $900 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Improper Physician Payments
BOSTON – Pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. (Biogen), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False …
Physician Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements for More Than 2,000 Medicare, Medicaid Patients
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A former Joplin, Mo., physician pleaded guilty in federal court today to falsely certifying that products and tests were medically necessary …
Nixa Physician Sentenced after Taking Bribes from Drug Manufacturer
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Nixa, Mo., physician was sentenced in federal court today after taking bribes from a drug manufacturer in exchange for prescribing its …
Denton Physician Guilty of Over-Prescribing Opioids
SHERMAN, Texas – A Denton physician has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston …
Collinsville osteopathic physician sentenced to a year in prison for illegally prescribing drug
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Wednesday sentenced an osteopathic physician from Collinsville, Illinois to a year in prison for illegally …
Local physician assistant arrested for unlawfully practicing medicine
BROWNSVILLE, Texas ‐ A 49-year-old Brownsville man has been charged for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicaid by working with a suspended medical …
Western Maryland Physician and Pain Management Practice Group Agree to Pay $980,000 to Settle Federal False Claims Act Allegations of Billing for Medically Unnecessary Urine Drug Tests
Baltimore, Maryland – Melvin Gonzaga, M.D., his son Rommel Gonzaga, and their practice group Gonzaga Interventional Pain Management (“GIPM”) have agreed to pay the United …
Justice Department Obtains Temporary Restraining Order to Prevent Tampa-Area Physician from Writing Opioid Prescriptions
Tampa, FL – A federal court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting a Tampa-area physician from prescribing opioids and other controlled substances, the Department of Justice …
Justice Department Obtains Temporary Restraining Order to Prevent Tampa-Area Physician from Writing Opioid Prescriptions
Tampa, FL – A federal court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting a Tampa-area physician from prescribing opioids and other controlled substances, the Department of Justice …
Federal Court Orders Clinic to Close, Physician and Clinic Owners to Pay $600,000 for Alleged Unlawful Opioid Distribution
Tampa, FL – A federal court ordered a Tampa-area pain management clinic to close and directed the clinic’s owners and its former physician to collectively …
Biden’s COVID symptoms ‘almost completely resolved’, his physician says
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms have now “almost completely resolved” and he now feels well enough to resume his physical exercise regimen, …
Federal Court Bars Grand Rapids Physician From Prescribing Controlled Substances And Orders Civil Judgment Over Forged Opioid Prescriptions
GRAND RAPIDS – David D. Sova, D.O., of Grand Rapids entered into a settlement with the United States in which …
Federal Court Bars Grand Rapids Physician From Prescribing Controlled Substances And Orders Civil Judgment Over Forged Opioid Prescriptions
GRAND RAPIDS – David D. Sova, D.O., of Grand Rapids entered into a settlement with the United States in which …
Ashland City Physician Charged In Federal Health Care Fraud Conspiracy
NASHVILLE – A federal grand jury in Nashville on Monday returned a nine-count indictment, charging an Ashland City, Tennessee, physician in a telemedicine conspiracy to …
Biden has fatigue, dry cough, symptoms started Wed. night – physician
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden has a runny nose and fatigue with an occasional dry cough, Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor said on Thursday in …
Physician Assistant Is Indicted For Role In $10 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A physician assistant is facing federal charges for his role in a genetic testing scheme that resulted in the submission of more …
Federal Health Care Fraud Charge Filed against Suburban Chicago Physician
CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago physician prescribed opioids to patients without a medical examination or visit and then fraudulently billed Medicare for the nonexistent treatment, …
Bingham Farms Physician Convicted of Drug and Health Care Fraud Charges
DETROIT – Bingham Farms physician David Jankowski, 62, was convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit on thirty charges related to the unlawful distribution …
South Georgia physician admits participating in cospiracy to illegally distribute drugs
SAVANNAH, GA: A Coffee County physician and two of his employees have admitted participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed massive amounts of addictive …
Dansville Physician Agrees To Pay More Than $600,000 To Resolve Allegations That He Fraudulently Billed Medicare And Medicaid
CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051 BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that James A. Sakr, M.D., has agreed …
Collinsville osteopathic physician admits illegally prescribing drug
ST. LOUIS – An osteopathic physician from Collinsville, Illinois pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Tuesday and admitted illegally prescribing an anti-anxiety drug. Matthew Steven …
Newton Physician Resolves Allegations of Improper Prescribing Practices Concerning Controlled Substances
BOSTON – Dr. Hooshang Poor, a Newton geriatric medicine physician, has agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve allegations that he prescribed controlled substances outside the …
San Francisco Physician To Pay More Than $1,000,000 To Settle Allegations Of False Medicare Charges
SAN JOSE – Bay Area physician Dr. Roger Wang has agreed to pay $1,033,666.42 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by …
Manchester Physician Barred From Prescribing Certain Controlled Substances
NASHVILLE – In a settlement reached last week, David Florence, D.O., a Manchester, Tennessee physician, agreed to be barred from prescribing Schedule II and the …
Former O.C. Physician Assistant Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years in Prison for Issuing and Selling Opioid Prescriptions to Known Drug Dealers
SANTA ANA, California – A former physician assistant at a Fountain Valley medical clinic was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for …
Toledo Area Physician Charged with Fraudulently Billing More Than $8.4 Million to Medicare
Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment charging Ankita Singh, 39, formerly of Maumee, Ohio, with …
Boulder Health System, Physician Assistant, and Nurse Practitioner Agree to Resolve Investigation into Improper Prescribing of Opioids
DENVER –The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Boulder Community Health, a not-for-profit health system in Boulder, Colorado, Christopher Kreider (a …
Richland Physician Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute Medically Unnecessary Fentanyl Patches, Opioid Pills and Other Controlled Substances
Spokane, Washington – Senior U.S. District Judge Edward F. Shea has sentenced Dr. Janet Sue Arnold, age 63, of Benton City, Washington, to 48 months …
Former El Paso Physician Agrees to Pay $350,000 to Resolve Allegations that He Failed to Account for Large Quantities of Opioids
EL PASO – Dr. Herbert Nassour, a former physician in El Paso, has agreed to pay $350,000 under a civil settlement to resolve allegations he …
Physician Indicted in $10 Million Telemedicine Health Care Fraud Scheme
An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Elemer Raffai, an orthopedic surgeon, with health care fraud in connection with a $10 …
Man Receives Ten Year Prison Sentence for His Role in Prescription Drug Scheme Involving Montgomery Physician
Montgomery, Ala. – On April 11, 2022, Garren Charles Rogers, 36, of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for his …
Physician Partners of America to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Allegations of Unnecessary Testing, Improper Remuneration to Physicians and a False Statement in Connection with COVID-19 Relief Funds
Physician Partners of America LLC (PPOA), headquartered in Tampa, Florida, its founder, Rodolfo Gari, and its former chief medical officer, Dr. Abraham Rivera, have agreed …
Maryland Internal Medicine Physician Agrees to Pay More Than $500,000 Dollars to Settle Federal False Claims Act Allegations of Billing for Services Not Rendered
Baltimore, Maryland – Anuja Kurichh, M.D., an internal medicine physician who operates a medical practice known as PHC Healthcare, LLC in College Park, Maryland, has …
Federal Court Prohibits Traverse City Physician From Prescribing Controlled Substances In Opioid Diversion Case
GRAND RAPIDS – Samuel P. Copeland, D.O., located in Traverse City, Michigan, entered into a settlement with the United States …