ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis-area doctor who was running two urgent care locations was sentenced Wednesday for over $700,000 worth of fraud involving Medicare and Missouri Medicaid.
According to the U.S. District Court in St. Louis, 57-year-old Sonny Saggar was sentenced to nearly three years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release following. He was charged with one count of conspiracy.
Court documents state that Saggar ran two St. Louis General Hospitals between downtown St. Louis and Creve Coeur. He would charge patients for Medicare and Medicaid as if Saggar had seen the patient when, in reality, only the assistant physician attended to the patient—who are medical school graduates, haven’t completed a residency program, and therefore aren’t licensed. This also occurred while Saggar had been out of town…