Dr. Rajpaul Singh has to pay back over $65,000 in fines.
By The American Bazaar Staff
NEW YORK: Dr. Rajpaul Singh, an Indian American physician based in South Richmond Hill, Queens, New York, has pleaded guilty to deceiving insurance companies and fraudulently billing medical tests he never performed.
The Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said that Rajpaul will have to return $65,849 and 20 cents and that amount is one of the conditions linked to his being released to a three-year conditional discharge. Singh, who ran Liberty Avenue Medical P.C. located at 133-13 Liberty Ave. until 2011, pleaded guilty in June to falsifying business records, according to the Queens Chronicle.
According to the charges, various people who had been injured in vehicle accidents went to the medical clinic for treatment. Between March 2009 and March 2011, Singh billed the various insurance companies and the New York State Worker’s Compensation Board for procedures claimed to be performed on the patients.
These tests were never performed, and the test results were falsified by substituting them with old patient results, according to prosecutors. This led to the insurance companies making payments to Liberty Advance Medical.
“In carrying out his scheme, the defendant falsified medical tests by recycling old patient test results which he then used to cheat insurance companies out of tens of thousands of dollars. This case makes clear that law enforcement’s fight against insurance fraud is ongoing and that those who cheat will be held accountable,” Brown said in a statement.