A Mount Prospect doctor is one of nine defendants charged in a Medicare fraud scheme.
Masood Syed, 53, is facing five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
He is accused of accepting nearly $5,000 in kickbacks from the owners of a Skokie home health care agency in exchange for referring Medicare patients, federal prosecutors said.
Masood Syed, 53, is facing five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
He is accused of accepting nearly $5,000 in kickbacks from the owners of a Skokie home health care agency in exchange for referring Medicare patients, federal prosecutors said.
In addition to Syed, those charged include Dr. Emmanuel Nwaokocha of Skokie, two owners of Rosner Home Healthcare, Inc., a former employee of the agency, the operator of a referral agency, an office manager at a doctor’s office and two home health care marketers.
Prosecutors allege the kickbacks have been ongoing since 2008.
Mount Prospect doctor charged in kickback scheme
I am sure this is going on in Fl. I hope investigators are working hard in Fl. People that ruin our country need to be caught and punished.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to see this. Medicaid and Medicare could be saved millions if not billions of dollars if doctors were routinely audited.
ReplyDeleteKeep digging and digging there are more. Caught and punished and all their property and assets seized and then hung by their ankles until the crook is expired because as a taxpaying chump I don't want to spend $1.00 on the crooks upkeep I've had it with being taken for a chump, had enough of our justice system being soft on crooks. It's time to take our country back, back to we the people.
ReplyDeleteKickbacks? You bet. And I bet we'd faint if we knew all the ways they come up with to cheat the system.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mt. Prospect resident,
ReplyDeleteThere is more. OBRAs are being used to the benefit of the guardians and attorneys. The ward gets moved to public aid and the estate is used almost solely for the benefit of the guardian and attys.
Also, many guardianship cases in Cook County contain fraudulent billings to MedicAre, with the knowledge of certain judges..
Keep digging, please.