An Atlanta urology group and its owner have agreed to pay $14 million to the government after years of scrutiny over how the clinic billed public health programs. On Thursday, April 2, 2026, Advanced Urology, Inc., and its owner, Dr. Jitesh Patel, settled federal and state lawsuits that accused the practice of charging Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE for medically unnecessary procedures or services that were never actually performed. The deal wraps up two whistleblower cases and caps a multiagency investigation into the group’s billing and testing practices.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Advanced Urology and Patel agreed to the $14 million payment to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act and the Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act. Prosecutors said the practice submitted false claims for various urological and diagnostic procedures. The settlement resolves two qui tam lawsuits that whistleblowers first filed in 2018 and 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
“Physicians commit fraud when they seek payment for medically unnecessary procedures or bill for services they never performed,” U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said in the release. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia credited a team effort by the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Georgia Medicaid Fraud and Patient Protection Division, the FBI, the VA Office of Inspector General and the Defense Health Agency for uncovering the conduct described in the settlement paperwork.
What Whistleblowers Alleged
The case started with two insiders who said the clinic’s priorities got upside down. A former employee and a former physician told investigators that Advanced Urology put revenue ahead of patient need by implanting permanent sacral nerve stimulators without first confirming that patients would benefit. They also alleged the practice performed cystoscopies and retrograde pyelograms under anesthesia in situations where those procedures were not medically necessary…