Kuthuru practiced in upstate New York too.
AB Wire
NEW YORK: An Indian American physician who practiced in Utica and Fulton in New York, but is from Las Vegas, California, Dr. Mahesh Kuthuru, was sentenced in federal court to 18 months for health care fraud and 12 months for unlawful distribution of controlled substances.
Kuthuru, whose sentences will run concurrently, also must pay $84,265.11 restitution to Medicare, along with a $125 special assessment, officials said, reported Utica Observer-Dispatch.
Kuthuru had pleaded guilty in January to health care fraud and improperly issuing prescriptions. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge David Hurd in Utica sentenced Kuthuru, reported Syracuse.com
A federal grand jury last year charged Kuthuru and his former officer manager, Bonnie Meislin, with engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare at the offices of Upstate Pain Management in Utica and Fulton.
The two defrauded health insurers out of more than $100,000 by routinely billing when there was no doctor in the offices in Fulton and Utica from January 2010 to June 2011, federal prosecutors said, according to the Syracuse report.
Kuthuru opened Desert Pain Management in Las Vegas in 2009, and only returned sporadically to the offices in Fulton and Utica, prosecutors said.
Read previous stories in The American Bazaar on Kuthuru:
Kuthuru was charged with illegally distributing prescription medicines Oxycodone, Oxycontin, Methadone and Morphine Sulphate for patients in Fulton from his Las Vegas office.
The office manager, Bonnie Meislin, 45, of Utica, was convicted in February of 23 counts of health care fraud and a count of conspiracy. Meislin faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine at her July sentencing.
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One by one Indians are bringing shame upon this country.
The only consequence of this has been that Indians come under great scrutiny in most countries now. Very sad.