PTI, Washington
Published by: Amit Mandal
Updated Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:01 PM IST
Summary
While working in Home Health Care Consulting, Atiq scammed using a variety of fake identities including those of Nilesh Patel, Sanjay Kapoor and Rajesh Desai.
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Mohammad Ateeq, a resident of Rawalpindi, worked in the Islamabad office of Home Health Care Consulting. The company performed Medicare billing and electronic medical records maintenance for more than 20 home health agencies located in Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, and Texas.
While working at Home Health Care Consulting, Atiq used a variety of fictitious identities, including those of Nilesh Patel, Sanjay Kapoor and Rajesh Desai, to acquire and manage home health agencies in the US, the Justice Department said in a statement Friday. .
Judge Manish Shah of the Court for the Northern District of Illinois also ordered the forfeiture of cashier’s checks worth US$2.4 million and cash worth over US$1 million that Atiq had fraudulently obtained. After acquiring agencies, Ateeq submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for home health services and over US$40 million in payments for services that were never provided.
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Rawalpindi’s Mohd. Atiq’s feat
Mohammad Ateeq, a resident of Rawalpindi, worked in the Islamabad office of Home Health Care Consulting. The company performed Medicare billing and electronic medical records maintenance for more than 20 home health agencies located in Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, and Texas.
While working at Home Health Care Consulting, Atiq used a variety of fictitious identities, including those of Nilesh Patel, Sanjay Kapoor and Rajesh Desai, to acquire and manage home health agencies in the US, the Justice Department said in a statement Friday. .
Judge Manish Shah of the Court for the Northern District of Illinois also ordered the forfeiture of cashier’s checks worth US$2.4 million and cash worth over US$1 million that Atiq had fraudulently obtained. After acquiring agencies, Ateeq submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare for home health services and over US$40 million in payments for services that were never provided.