tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2018 Issue 17

Industry Note: Family Practitioner Gets 5 Years in Prison for False Claims

A Saratoga, California physician pretended that she didn’t understand how the federal healthcare system worked. It did not turn out well. Family practitioner Vilasini Ganesh coordinated with her husband, Gregory Belcher, to defraud Medicare by submitting “a series of false medical claims related to the family medical practice she owned, Campbell Medical Group in Saratoga,” noted a Department of Justice (DOJ) release on the case. Ganesh sent reports that she’d seen some patients “12 to 15 time” in a month and billed for that care when the provider hadn’t seen them at all...

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