MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — A East Valley-based physician group has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the feds after allegations it billed public health programs for medically unnecessary procedures.
Tri-City Cardiology, based in Mesa with locations across Maricopa and Pinal counties, will pay $4.75 million to the United States and the state of Arizona as part of a civil settlement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
Prosecutors alleged three East Valley physicians, identified as Dr. Jaskamal Kahlon, Dr. Joshua D. Cohen, and Dr. M. Joshua Berkowitz, performed ablations on perforator veins between Jan. 1, 2017, and April 27, 2022, even though the veins did not qualify for treatment under accepted medical standards…