Indian origin Doctor pleaded guilty to fraud in healthcare
Washington sources reported that the Justice Department said an Indian origin doctor has pleaded guilty to a healthcare fraud in the US. Meanwhile Jayam Krishna Iyer, 66, from Clearwater, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of the healthcare fraud earlier this week and data-faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, or 20 years, if her offence involves serious bodily injury.
The Department said in a press release that as part of the plea on Tuesday, Iyer agreed to surrender both her Drug Enforcement Administration registration number that she used to prescribe controlled substances, her Florida medical license, and to a permanent exclusion from the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Moreover according to officials, Iyer owned and operated Creative Medical Centre in Clear water that functioned as a pain management clinic.
Moreover she billed Medicare and Medicaid for
office visits, tests and services provided to patients using her National
Provider Identification number, as well as wrote prescriptions for controlled
substances. Meanwhile instead, family members of the patients went to her with
notes requesting her to issue and provide prescriptions. Further the officials
said that she thereby violated a law requiring doctors to perform an in-person
office visit and examination of each patient before issuing controlled
substance prescriptions.