Washington:

 A 51-year-old Indian American doctor from the Chicago space has pleaded responsible to a federal healthcare fraud by billing Medicaid and personal insurers for nonexistent companies.

Mona Ghosh, who owns and operates Progressive Ladies’s Healthcare, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology companies, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of well being care fraud.

Every rely is punishable by as much as ten years in federal jail.

US District Decide Franklin U Valderrama has set sentencing for October 22.

Federal prosecutors allege that Ghosh is accountable for at the very least $2.4 million in fraudulently obtained reimbursements.

She admitted in her plea settlement that she was accountable for greater than $1.5 million of such fraudulently obtained reimbursements.

The ultimate quantity can be decided by the court docket at sentencing, a media launch mentioned.

In response to court docket paperwork, from 2018 to 2022, Ghosh submitted, and precipitated her workers to submit, fraudulent claims to Medicaid, TRICARE, and quite a few different insurers for procedures and companies that weren’t supplied or weren’t medically obligatory, a few of which have been carried out with out affected person consent.

Ghosh additionally fraudulently overstated the size and complexity of in-office and telemedicine visits and submitted claims utilizing billing codes for which the visits didn’t qualify so as to search greater reimbursement charges, her plea settlement states.

She admitted that she had ready false affected person medical data to assist the fraudulent reimbursement claims.

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