The Daily Record (Baltimore, MD)

June 14, 2006 Wednesday

MD Legal Briefs: June 14, 2006

BYLINE: Daily Record Staff and Wire Reports

SECTION: NEWS

LENGTH: 285 words

Psychiatrist sentenced Roman Ostrovsky, 48, of Mount Washington, a licensed psychiatrist with a practice in Pikesville, was sentenced to 12 months of home confinement and two years probation, following his guilty plea in Baltimore County Circuit Court of defrauding the state Medicaid program of $200,000 by billing for services that were never provided, the Maryland attorney general’s office said yesterday. Prosecutors said Ostrovsky billed Medicaid for nearly 6,500 psychiatry sessions, each allegedly lasting 45-50 minutes, between January 2002 and May 2004. Ostrovsky billed for more than eight hours of services 293 times during the period of the indictment, and on one occasion billed for 19 hours of treatments in a single day.
Ostrovsky paid $250,000 at the time of sentencing and, in addition to the confinement, is required to pay an additional $150,000 over the next two years.Curran in AnnapolisMaryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. said yesterday he is intent on getting legislation passed during the current General Assembly special session to increase supervision of sex offenders and broaden community notification once offenders are released into Maryland neighborhoods. Both houses of the legislature passed separate bills during the regular 2006 session to strengthen the current law, but the issue died on the legislature’s last day when time ran out to pass a conference committee report. Curran said the legislation, among other things, creates extended parole supervision, from three years to life, for the most dangerous violent and child sex offenders. Under current law, sex offenders are released from parole or probation regardless of whether or not they are still dangerous.