A former executive from Riverside General Hospital in Houston pled guilty yesterday to his role in a $116 million kickback scheme, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Mohammad Khan pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay healthcare kickbacks and five other counts of paying and offering to pay kickbacks, according to the report. He will be sentenced next month.
As an assistant administrator at the hospital, Mr. Khan allegedly operated a scheme to defraud Medicare from 2008 until his arrest on February 8 by submitting false claims for partial hospitalization program services to Medicare. PHP is a form of intensive outpatient treatment for severe mental illness.
Of the $116 million in Medicare claims Mr. Khan submitted, roughly $31.3 million were actually paid before the government began analyzing the claims more closely.
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Mohammad Khan pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay healthcare kickbacks and five other counts of paying and offering to pay kickbacks, according to the report. He will be sentenced next month.
As an assistant administrator at the hospital, Mr. Khan allegedly operated a scheme to defraud Medicare from 2008 until his arrest on February 8 by submitting false claims for partial hospitalization program services to Medicare. PHP is a form of intensive outpatient treatment for severe mental illness.
Of the $116 million in Medicare claims Mr. Khan submitted, roughly $31.3 million were actually paid before the government began analyzing the claims more closely.
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