Us Health Care Fraud

An Indian national was on Tuesday sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for a USD 2.8 million health care fraud, the Department of Justice said.

An Indian-origin physician has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay fine and restitution of over a million dollars for engaging in a multi-faceted health care fraud scheme and for illegally prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxers.

Indian-origin doctor Pawankumar Jain has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a US court for committing health care fraud and illegally distributing prescription painkillers.

US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health care scams worth $1.3 billion including the wrongful prescription and distribution of opioids.

An Indian-American couple, who owned a mobile diagnostic testing company in New Jersey, has been ordered by a US court to pay USD 7.75 million for committing a multi-million health care fraud.

A federal jury in the US has convicted an Indian-origin doctor couple of a $2.5 million health care fraud, a media report said.

A Florida eye doctor facing corruption charges along with US Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted for multimillion-dollar health care fraud.

An Indian physician today pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications and for fraudulently collecting over USD 216,000 for services he did not provide.

Two Indian pharmacists working in the US have pleaded guilty to a massive health care fraud, causing a loss of up to USD 7 million to the district of Maryland.

A 61-year-old Indian physician has been arrested on health care fraud charges and faces life imprisonment for illegally distributing opioid pain medication that resulted in the deaths of two patients in the US.

The US government sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own.

An NRI doctor couple has been convicted of conspiring to commit health care fraud over a 10-year-period in Texas and will give up millions in assets.

An Indian national was on Tuesday sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for a USD 2.8 million health care fraud, the Department of Justice said.

An Indian-origin physician has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay fine and restitution of over a million dollars for engaging in a multi-faceted health care fraud scheme and for illegally prescribing thousands of opioid painkillers and muscle relaxers.

Indian-origin doctor Pawankumar Jain has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a US court for committing health care fraud and illegally distributing prescription painkillers.

US authorities announced charges Thursday against more than 400 people, many of them doctors and nurses, over health care scams worth $1.3 billion including the wrongful prescription and distribution of opioids.

An Indian-American couple, who owned a mobile diagnostic testing company in New Jersey, has been ordered by a US court to pay USD 7.75 million for committing a multi-million health care fraud.

A federal jury in the US has convicted an Indian-origin doctor couple of a $2.5 million health care fraud, a media report said.

A Florida eye doctor facing corruption charges along with US Senator Robert Menendez has been indicted for multimillion-dollar health care fraud.

An Indian physician today pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud and illegally prescribing controlled substance medications and for fraudulently collecting over USD 216,000 for services he did not provide.

Two Indian pharmacists working in the US have pleaded guilty to a massive health care fraud, causing a loss of up to USD 7 million to the district of Maryland.

A 61-year-old Indian physician has been arrested on health care fraud charges and faces life imprisonment for illegally distributing opioid pain medication that resulted in the deaths of two patients in the US.

The US government sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Tuesday, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own.

An NRI doctor couple has been convicted of conspiring to commit health care fraud over a 10-year-period in Texas and will give up millions in assets.