A New Jersey physician was sentenced to 26 months in prison for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme that targeted Amtrak.
Muhammad Mirza, MD, 51, of Cedar Grove was also ordered to pay $1.37 million in restitution, according to a May 7 Justice Department news release.
From April 2017 through June 2022, Dr. Mirza and his co-conspirators schemed to bill the Amtrak healthcare plan for services that were never provided or were medically unnecessary, according to the release. They recruited Amtrak employees to participate in the scheme by paying them to allow the conspirators to use their patient and insurance information to submit fraudulent claims.
The scheme caused Amtrak to lose more than $1.3 million, according to the release.