A physician in River Forest, Ill., has been charged with stealing more than $1 million in payments from Medicaid and Medicare.
Mohammad Khamis, MD, received Medicaid and Medicare payments totaling over $1 million for prescriptions he did not render to patients, according to a Nov. 20 news release from the Office of the Illinois Attorney General.
Dr. Khamis owned and operated four medical practices and four pharmacies in Chicago. He then submitted payments for medical services that he claimed to perform, but he was out of the country…