A federal grand jury indicted Chesapeake Regional Medical Center with healthcare fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States and interference with government functions Wednesday.
The charges are in connection to the Medical Center’s employment of Javaid Perwaiz, who was arrested in 2019 for doing unnecessary gynecological surgeries on women in addition to submitting fictitious claims to health care benefit programs for reimbursement.
According to the U.S. attorney, CRMC granted Perwaiz with priviliges from 1984 until his arrest in 2019, despite knowing that his privileges were terminated at another hospital for performing unnecessary surgeries and that he was convicted of two federal felonies in 1996.
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The U.S. attorney claims that CRMC allegedly received $18.5 million in reimbursements for the surgeries Perwaiz performed and states that he did not act alone.