Thursday, September 8, 2011

Operator Of Defunct Medical Labs Sentenced In Medicaid Fraud Scheme

Operator Of Defunct Medical Labs Sentenced In Medicaid Fraud Scheme

The former operator of medical laboratories in East Hartford and West Hartford was sentenced today to serve two years in prison and ordered to pay $20,000 restitution for billing the government for lab tests and other services that were never provided.

TAHIR SAEED SHERANI, age 46, formerly of South Orange, New Jersey, was sentenced in Hartford Superior Court, G.A. No. 14, by the Honorable Judge Elpedio N. Vitale to two years imprisonment and ordered to pay $20,000 restitution.

Mr. Sherani pled guilty in July to one count of Larceny in the First Degree By Defrauding A Public Community and one count of Attempted Larceny in the First Degree By Defrauding A Public Community, both class B felonies.

Mr. Sherani operated American Diagnostic Laboratories, Inc., in East Hartford and Immediate Medical Care, Inc., in West Hartford, until the businesses were shut down by federal and state authorities in 2003. Mr. Sherani subsequently moved to California, where he was convicted in 2005 of defrauding that state's Medicaid program.

In 2010 Mr. Sherani was returned to Connecticut to face charges involving more than 3,800 false claims for Medicaid reimbursement for services that were never provided. Medicaid is a government-funded health care program that serves low-income individuals.

The case was prosecuted by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Chief State's Attorney's Office. The unit is grateful for the assistance it received in this investigation from the State of Connecticut Department of Social Services Office of Quality Assurance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the West Hartford and Windsor Locks Police Departments.

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