CHICAGO (Diya TV) — A suburban Chicago physician has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for orchestrating a years-long healthcare fraud scheme that endangered patient health and drained taxpayer resources.
Dr. Mona Ghosh, 52, of Inverness, pleaded guilty last year to two counts of healthcare fraud. On June 9, U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama imposed the sentence and ordered her to pay $1.5 million in restitution, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
From 2018 to 2022, Ghosh ran Progressive Women’s Healthcare, S.C., an obstetrics and gynecology clinic in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. During that time, she and her employees submitted fraudulent claims to Medicaid, Tricare, and private insurance companies…