Two Texas Physicians Charged With Medicare Fraud
Two Houston, Texas-area physicians, Arun Sharma, MD, and Kiran Sharma, MD, were charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, costing Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers $9 million, according to a report by KIAH News.
The married physicians are accused of using their allergy and pain clinics to see patients who sought prescriptions that were not medically necessary and then provided these prescriptions to the patients.
According to the criminal complaint, the physicians saw more than 70 patients per day, many of which were stated to be "profoundly" addicted to the pharmaceuticals.
Read the KIAH News' report on the Texas physicians charged with Medicare fraud.
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