Five cases involving physicians and physician-adjacent fraud schemes have surfaced in a single month, collectively totaling more than $195 million in alleged fraud, settlements and indictments.
Here are the five cases:
1. Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has reached a tentative agreement with the Justice Department to resolve a criminal case stemming from the hospital’s decades-long relationship with convicted OB-GYN Javaid Perwaiz, MD. Under the tentative agreement, the hospital would admit certain facts, submit to independent monitoring, pay restitution to Medicare and Medicaid and establish a $12.8 million fund for patients who underwent procedures performed by Dr. Perwaiz at the facility. A federal grand jury indicted the hospital in January 2025, alleging it granted Dr. Perwaiz privileges from 1984 until his 2019 arrest despite knowing another hospital had previously revoked his privileges for performing unnecessary surgeries and that he had been convicted of two tax fraud felonies in 1996.
2. A Nevada physician has been indicted on charges of billing Medicare more than $95 million for medically unnecessary amniotic wound allografts, including procedures performed on elderly patients in hospice care. Stephen Dubin, MD, of Henderson, Nev., owned and operated Dubin Medical Consultants, also known as Wound MD. Dr. Dubin allegedly received illegal kickbacks and rebates from two allograft distributors, submitted claims based on inflated sham invoices rather than the actual prices he paid and applied allografts without regard to medical necessity, including to infected wounds and wounds not responding to treatment.
3. A Yuma, Ariz., physician’s clinic has closed after Ifran Fazil, MD, was arrested and charged with four felonies, including defrauding Arizona’s Medicaid program, money laundering and possessing dangerous drugs, leaving patients scrambling for care and waiting months for medical records. Signs posted outside the Bio Clinic direct patients to contact the Arizona attorney general’s office for questions about records and appointments. The Arizona AG’s office has accused Dr. Fazil of running a fraud scheme with alleged ties to Mexican drug cartels. A judge denied his request earlier this month to lower a $50 million bond or permit house arrest. Dr. Fazil will remain in custody.
4. A Houston-based laboratory, its former CEO and a Florida businessman have agreed to pay a combined $36.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of paying kickbacks and billing Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary genetic testing. Access DX Laboratory, former CEO Michael Stewart and Harold Shatz allegedly paid kickbacks to marketers for patient referrals, unbundled billing codes for genetic testing and paid telemedicine providers for fraudulent physicians’ orders between January 2018 and January 2020. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Shatz previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive healthcare kickbacks.
5. David Antonio Becerril, MD, a 70-year-old physician from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was sentenced July 8 to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.25 million in restitution for his role in a nationwide telemarketing scheme that defrauded Medicare. A jury convicted Dr. Becerril in September 2025 on 16 felony counts, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and multiple counts of health care fraud, wire fraud and false statements relating to health care matters.
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