Roya Jafari-Hassad, MD, was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for prescribing oxycodone pills without a legitimate medical purpose and fraudulently billing insurance providers for procedures that were never performed, according to a March 2 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
What happened?
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- From approximately January 2019 through May 2022, Dr. Jafari-Hassad, who has offices in Great Neck, Forest Hills, Queens and Manhattan, charged patients hundreds of dollars in cash in exchange for monthly prescriptions of oxycodone with no legitimate medical purpose. At times, prescriptions were issued without appointments, with payment information obtained and prescriptions immediately refilled.
- Dr. Jafari-Hassad was…