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PTA Poser Pleads Guilty In Detroit Fraud Case

Published on Thu Jul 26, 2012

Another guilty plea has come out of the $13.8 million fraud case against Detroit-area HHAs Physicians Choice Home Health Care, Quantum Home Care Inc., First Care Home Health Care and Moonlite Home Care Inc. Nabeel Shaikh purported to be a physical therapy assistant with a limited license who provided PT services to homebound Medicare beneficiaries, but Shaikh had a forged PTA degree and no medical license, the Department of Justice says in a release. Shaikh was paid to falsify medical documentation for Physicians Choice and Quantum, which billed and received payments from Medicare for home care services that were never rendered.According to court documents, Shaikh paid kickbacks and bribes to Medicare beneficiaries to obtain the benes' Medicare information, which was then used to bill Medicare for home health services that were never provided. Shaikh created evaluations, therapy revisit notes, and other documentation memorializing purported PT for patients he did not [...]
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