Healthcare Fraud in US; Indian-American Doctor Pleads Guilty
Washington: An Indian-American lady doctor has pleaded guilty to a health care fraud in the US, the Justice Department has recently announced.
Dr Jayam Krishna Iyer from Florida faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, or 20 years if her offence involves serious bodily injury.
As part of the plea on Tuesday, the 66-year-old doctor has agreed to surrender both her Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration number that she used to prescribe controlled substances and her Florida medical licence, and to a permanent exclusion from the Medicare and Medicaid programmes, the department said in a press release.
Iyer owned and operated Creative Medical Centre, a pain management clinic located at Druid Road East in Florida's Clearwater area.
She billed Medicare and Medicaid for office visits, tests and services provided to patients using her National Provider Identification (NPI) number, and wrote prescriptions for controlled substances, the release said.
Between July 2011 and December 2017, Iyer executed and carried out a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing for face-to-face office visits with Medicare beneficiaries, when, in fact, certain patients did not go to her office and were not examined by her on the claimed dates.
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