tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 28

Physician Notes: Physician Kickbacks Lead to Jail Time

The feds continue to crack down on home care and hospice fraud, with kickbacks often serving as a main component of the schemes. In Detroit: Zafar Mehmood has been convicted of Medicare fraud and related charges, the Department of Justiceannounced in a recent news release. From 2006 through 2011, Mehmood and Badar Ahmadaniappear to haveobtained patients by paying cash kickbacks to recruiters, who in turn paid cash to patients to induce them to sign up for home care with Mehmood's companies.The evidence also showed that the defendants paid kickbacks to physicians to refer patients to the defendants' companies...

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