Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced that a jury has found physician SURESH HEMRAJANI, 58, guilty of perpetrating a $700,000 Medicaid fraud out of his Washington Heights office.
HEMRAJANI, a specialist in internal medicine, prescribed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) medications to his patients, though they did not have the virus, and billed the cost of the medications to Medicaid.
The defendant was convicted of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, Petit Larceny, and eleven counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree.
As proven at trial, throughout 2008 HEMRAJANI wrote prescriptions for HIV medications for numerous individuals without determining whether they actually had HIV. HEMRAJANI prescribed medications for these individuals after their first visit to his office and the cost of the medications was billed to Medicaid. HEMRAJANI also created false records for his purported treatment of the patients, even though in most cases these individuals did not visit his office more than once. The defendant charged Medicaid for the initial patient visits and for the subsequent visits that did not take place. When some of these patients later attempted to obtain prescriptions from a hospital, one of them was tested and found to be HIV-negative, which prompted an investigation by the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, the Human Resources Administration Bureau of Fraud Investigation, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
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2011-12-08, 20:28:33
So what did the Doctor gain out of this? If he prescribed medication to those who did not need it, then what did he gain? The issue of his making money for office visits that never happened is , of course, a different matter.
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