Indian-Origin Doctor Convicted in $2.3 million healthcare fraud case

The insurance companies and plans paid $2.3 million for the medicines in the "Goody Bags", the prosecutors said.

When Anand became aware of the investigation, he transferred about $1.2 million to an account in his father's name and for the benefit of his minor daughter, to conceal the proceeds from the fraud, according to the prosecutors.

One of the government lawyers who prosecuted him was Arun Bodapati, who works in the Justice Department's Criminal Division's Fraud Section.

Anand is scheduled to be sentenced in August.

He was originally charged in 2019 with four others, three of whom were described as medical graduates of foreign universities without licence to practice medicine in the US, reports IANS.

On December 14, 2017, an Indian-American doctor was arrested on 39 charges of unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and healthcare fraud, officials said.

The cardiologist was based in the US state of Nevada.

The 58-year-old doctor allegedly prescribed opioids such as fentanyl, hydrocodone and oxycodone. Opiods are substances which act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects.

Cardiologist Devendra Patel allegedly prescribed the aforementioned drugs without legitimate medical cause on a routine basis from May 2014 to September 2017, according to an announcement made by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other law enforcement officials.

The accused, Devendra Patel, had appeared in a federal court in Reno city of Nevada and pleaded not guilty, the US media reported.

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