Ameet Vohra, MD, owner of Miramar, Fla.-based Vohra Wound Physicians Management, and his companies have agreed to pay $45 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims for medically unnecessary surgical procedures to Medicare.
What happened?
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- According to a Nov. 21 news release by the Department of Justice, Dr. Vohra allegedly submitted claims through his company for more lucrative surgical procedures when only routine nonsurgical wound management had been performed on his patients.
- He also allegedly submitted claims for evaluation and management services that were not billable under Medicare coverage and coding rules.
- Vohra Wound Physicians Management is one of the nation’s largest…