A , Lexington , doctor who wrote orders that resulted in more than$ 14 million in fraudulent billing to Medicare has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.
The word for , Amr Mohamed , includes$ 14.1 million in compensation, according to a news release from the , U. S. Department of Justice.
Mohamed, 55, specialized in conditions of the liver. He had been licensed in , Kentucky , since 2012 and worked at , UK HealthCare , before being indicted in , March 2023.
The prosecution resulted from his job with RediDoc, a alleged telemedicine firm, and not the school.
RediDoc paid Mohamed to create orders for health products, products and genetic screening for Medicare beneficiaries.
Because Mohamed did not establish a true doctor-patient connection with the people and the checks were not used for treatment, the provincial government alleged that the materials and exams were medically necessary.
Mohamed’s guilty plea cited one situation in which a , Kentucky , girl received a visit from a professional who said she was eligible for free health brackets.
The brackets involved in the scheme usually were elbow, back, knee and ankle braces, according to the judge record.
The person requested that Mohamed write an order for the splints but that she could not use them and that she could n’t send them.
Mohamed received$ 261, 054 from RediDoc between , March 2018 , and , April 2019 , for writing requests for more than 7, 000 people, but the company billed Medicare$ 14, 150, 764 for the unnecessary products and tests, according to court documents.
In a sentencing memorandum, Mohamed’s lawyer, John W. Oakley II, claimed Mohamed had no notion RediDoc had charged the federal government with making so much money based on his job.
Oakley said he believed” that , Dr. Mohamed , was used and manipulated by Redidoc to meet its own selfish goals and objectives at his and his mother’s expense”.
According to expert guidelines, Mohamed’s sentencing range included at least three years and ten months in prison in addition to the amount of false billing.
Oakley argued that Mohamed had repaid the$ 261,054 he had received from RediDoc and lost his job and training certificate.
U. S. District Judge , Karen K. Caldwell , sentenced Mohamed Tuesday in federal prosecutor in , Lexington.
According to a charge against one RediDoc official, the circumstance against Mohamed was a part of a larger, global conspiracy that included marketers calling Medicare beneficiaries to test them on drugs or technology “even when the beneficiary’s needed for those items was unclear and was not discussed with the beneficiary’s physician.”
According to the court case, the marketers therefore requested the information from RediDoc, and the company paid doctors to create the orders and prescriptions.
The users of the firm,  , Stephen Luke , and , David C. Laughlin Jr., both of , Arizona, pleaded guilty but have not been sentenced.
The two admitted taking part in more than ,$ 64 million in false billing , to Medicare and TRICARE, an insurance plan for members of the military.
Along with Luke and Laughlin, Mohamed is responsible for the$ 14.1 million in compensation.
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