A former Brookline sleep doctor who used proceeds from a healthcare fraud scheme to purchase a multimillion-dollar home in Fisher Hill was sentenced Friday to 58 months in federal prison.
Pankaj Merchia, 52, of Brookline and Boca Raton, Florida, was also ordered to pay $1.85 million in restitution and serve three years of supervised release following his prison term after a federal jury in Boston convicted him in January of healthcare fraud, money laundering and tax offenses.
In a press release, Federal prosecutors said Merchia, a Harvard-educated physician who operated several sleep medicine companies, carried out two separate fraud schemes involving continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines used to treat sleep apnea…