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Queens, N.Y., Doctor Sentenced for His Role in $15 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 31, 2014. A Queens, N.Y., medical doctor was sentenced today to serve 12 months and a day in prison for his role in a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare more than $15 million for, among other things, physical therapy and lesion removal services that were medically unnecessary and never provided.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch of the Eastern District of New…

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