FRAUD
Akinlolu Olalekan Peluola, Saskatoon psychiatrist, sentenced
Saskatoon StarPhoenix Saskatoon psychiatrist defrauded government to help offset new clinic costs Dr. Akinlolu Olalekan Peluola, 65, was sentenced to 21 months of jail served in the community, including a 24-hour curfew for the first year. By Bre McAdam March 24, 2024 -- Excerpt A Saskatoon psychiatrist will be on house arrest for 12 months as part of his fraud sentence handed down in provincial court. Dr. Akinlolu Olalekan Peluola must also pay back the $95,708.38 that he defrauded from the Saskatchewan government between 2017 and 2018. The 65-year-old pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 in December 2023. Last month, [...]
Rajeev Reghunath, UK Psychiatrist, struck off
Rajeev Reghunath -- Excerpt Daily Mail Psychiatrist, 45, is struck off after he fiddled timesheets and falsely claimed £40,000 worth of NHS work shifts when he was actually on holiday By Richard Percival March 13, 2024 A consultant doctor has been struck off after he falsely claimed for £40,000 worth of NHS work shifts when he was on holiday. Locum psychiatrist Dr Rajeev Reghunath, 45, fiddled public money by filing faked timesheets which wrongly claimed he was working eight hour shifts when in fact he was thousands of miles away in Turkey, Abu Dhabi or India. Reghunath was able to [...]
Saskatoon psychiatrist has been accused
Star Phoenix Saskatoon psychiatrist accused of defrauding government agency July 28, 2023 -- Excerpt A Saskatoon psychiatrist has been accused of defrauding a government agency of more than $90,000 through fraudulent billing. A criminal investigation started after police were notified in February 2022 by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan “of suspected fraudulent activity relating to the medical billings of a Saskatoon psychiatrist,” police said on Friday in a news release. Members of the economic crime section have concluded their investigation and “found that a government agency had been defrauded of more than [...]
James Dodson, Clarksville Psychiatrist, Pleads Guilty
James Dodson PRESS RELEASE Clarksville Psychiatrist Pleads Guilty To Making False Statements To Medicare & Tricare Wednesday, May 3, 2023 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee NASHVILLE – A Clarksville, Tennessee psychiatrist pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to two counts of making false statements relating to health care matters, announced U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis. Dr. James Maures Dodson, 57, pleaded guilty to making false statements to Medicare and TRICARE in connection with two types of criminal activity. First, he caused his practice, Clarksville Behavioral Health (CBH), to submit [...]
Ashok Jain, Texas psychiatrist – unnecessary brain stimulation
Ashok Jain Press Release Psychiatrist settles claims for unnecessary brain stimulation treatments Friday, March 3, 2023 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas HOUSTON – A 61-year-old doctor and companies he owned and operated have agreed to pay the United States $3 million to resolve claims they improperly billed Medicare, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Dr. Ashok Jain and companies known as Psychiatric Solutions P.C., Longview Psychiatric Center PLLC and Longview Psychiatric Center LP knowingly and willfully submitted, or caused the submission of, false claims to Medicare. The allegations included intentionally pressuring patients to accept unnecessary [...]
Zholia Alemi, UK psychiatrist, jailed
The Guardian Judge jails fake NHS psychiatrist and criticises ‘abject failure of scrutiny’ By Josh Halliday North of England correspondent February 28, 2023 -- Excerpt A bogus psychiatrist who practised in the NHS for 22 years with a fake degree has been jailed, as a judge criticised medical authorities for an “abject failure of scrutiny”. Zholia Alemi was ordered to serve seven years in prison after being found guilty of a “deliberate and wicked deception” that allowed her to treat hundreds of patients across Britain. Alemi, who is believed to be 60, earned £1.3m in wages after forging the degree [...]
Sanjay Masson, Thousand Oaks Psychiatrist, Insurance Fraud
Sanjay Masson Erik Nasarenko Ventura County District Attorney News Release Contact: Joey Buttitta Title: Communications Manager/PIO Phone: (805) 767-3400 Email: Joey.Buttitta@ventura.org Approved: RHD Date: January 13, 2023 Release No.: 23-004 Thousand Oaks Doctor Pleads No Contest to Automobile Insurance Fraud Case: 2020021659 VENTURA, Calif. – District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Dr. Sanjay Masson (DOB 06/26/65), a Moorpark resident and Thousand Oaks area psychiatrist, pled no contest to charges of auto insurance fraud on Thursday, January 12, 2023. Masson was charged with two counts of knowingly submitting fraudulent insurance claims. Masson contacted Progressive Insurance in February 2020 and filed [...]
Franco Sicuro, Chesterfield Psychiatrist, pleaded guilty
Franco Sicuro PRESS RELEASE Chesterfield Psychiatrist Admits Conspiracy Linked to Health Care Fraud Tuesday, November 15, 2022 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – A psychiatrist from Chesterfield, Missouri on Tuesday pleaded guilty in front of U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk to a felony conspiracy charge and admitted that Medicare, Medicaid and other insurers lost more than $3.8 million based on fraudulent reimbursement claims submitted by clinical laboratories that he owned. Dr. Franco Sicuro, 67, has also agreed to forfeit $3.1 million from various sources. Sicuro ran, owned, served as the medical director [...]
Jose Santeiro, Miami Lakes Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Jose Santeiro Press Release Addiction Treatment Facilities’ Medical Director Sentenced in $112 Million Addiction Treatment Fraud Scheme Thursday, July 7, 2022 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A Florida doctor was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for engaging in a scheme that fraudulently billed approximately $112 million for substance abuse services that were never provided or were medically unnecessary. According to court documents, Jose Santeiro, 62, of Miami Lakes, worked with others to unlawfully bill for approximately $112 million of addiction treatment services that were never rendered and/or were medically unnecessary at two addiction treatment facilities where [...]
Varanise Booker, Louisville Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Varanise Booker PRESS RELEASE Kentucky Psychiatrist Sentenced for Health Care Fraud Related to Referrals for Drug Testing at Greensburg Lab Thursday, June 16, 2022 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania PITTSBURGH - A resident of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced in federal court yesterday for one count of health care fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced. United States District Judge David S. Cercone sentenced Varanise C. Booker, 67, to 36 months of probation and ordered that she pay restitution totaling $24,217.26 to the Kentucky Medicaid program. During the defendant’s plea hearing on October 5, 2021, [...]