New York:
According to the US Department of-Noy, an Indian-fossa doctor has been convicted of participating in a $ 2.3 million conspiracy to distribute illegally controlled substances and healthcare fraud.
The department said on Wednesday that 48 -year -old Neil Anand was convicted of money laundering in a federal court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
In a conspiracy to distribute drugs illegally, he issued pre—away medical tips for oxicode, which were used by the intern, which were to enable only nine patients to gather 20,850 pills, it said.
Oxicodone is an opioid pain reliever that can be excessive addictive and one of the substances behind the drug epidemics in America.
Anand also issued “medically unnecessary prescriptions drugs”, which the prosecutors called the “good bag”, which were owned by them through pharmacies if they wanted to receive controlled drugs, and bill the health insurance companies and government insurance schemes for unnecessary drugs.
Prosecutors said that insurance companies and schemes paid $ 2.3 million for drugs in “Goody bags”.
When Anand came to know about the investigation, he transferred to an account of about $ 1.2 million in an account in his father’s name and to hide income from fraud for the benefit of his minor daughter.
Arun Bodapati, one of the government lawyers prosecuting him, was working in the fraud section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.
Anand is to be sentenced in August.
He was originally accused of four others in 2019, three of which were described as medical graduates from foreign universities without licenses to practice medical treatment in the US.
Officials said on December 14, 2017, an Indian-American doctor was arrested on 39 allegations of illegal distribution of tips opioids and healthcare fraud.
The cardiologist was located in the American state of Nevada.
The 58 -year -old doctor allegedly prescribed opioids such as Fentanile, Hydrocodone, and Oxicode. Opodies are substances that work on opioid receptors to produce effects such as morphine.
According to an announcement made by American Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other law enforcement officers, cardiologist Devendra Patel regularly prescribed the above medicines without regular medical reasons from May 2014 to September 2017.
American media said that the accused, Devendra Patel, had appeared in a federal court in Reno City, Nevada and requested not to be guilty.
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