<p>An Indian physical therapy assistant in the US has pleaded guilty for his role in a USD 13.8 million healthcare fraud scheme and faces 10 years in prison.<br /><br />Ankit Patel, 28, of Detroit pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud before US District Judge Gerald Rosen of the Eastern District of Michigan.<br /><br />Patel is scheduled to be sentenced in March 2013 and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a USD 250,000 fine.</p>.<p>According to court documents, beginning in June 2009 Patel received payments for falsifying medical documentation for Physicians Choice Home Health Care, a home health agency owned by his alleged co-conspirators.<br /><br />Another co-conspirator instructed Patel on how to falsify medical documentation.<br />He also signed therapy revisit notes as a physical therapy assistant for patients he did not see or treat.<br /><br />Patel admitted to knowing that the documents he falsified and the documents he signed would be used to support false claims to federal insurance programme Medicare for home health services.<br /><br />According to Patel’s plea agreement, he was also paid to create and sign falsified medical documentation for other Detroit-area home healthcare companies that billed Medicare for approximately a million dollars. <br /></p>
<p>An Indian physical therapy assistant in the US has pleaded guilty for his role in a USD 13.8 million healthcare fraud scheme and faces 10 years in prison.<br /><br />Ankit Patel, 28, of Detroit pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud before US District Judge Gerald Rosen of the Eastern District of Michigan.<br /><br />Patel is scheduled to be sentenced in March 2013 and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a USD 250,000 fine.</p>.<p>According to court documents, beginning in June 2009 Patel received payments for falsifying medical documentation for Physicians Choice Home Health Care, a home health agency owned by his alleged co-conspirators.<br /><br />Another co-conspirator instructed Patel on how to falsify medical documentation.<br />He also signed therapy revisit notes as a physical therapy assistant for patients he did not see or treat.<br /><br />Patel admitted to knowing that the documents he falsified and the documents he signed would be used to support false claims to federal insurance programme Medicare for home health services.<br /><br />According to Patel’s plea agreement, he was also paid to create and sign falsified medical documentation for other Detroit-area home healthcare companies that billed Medicare for approximately a million dollars. <br /></p>