False Billing Scheme.
BOSTON
– A Brookline doctor MAD DOG MILLIONAIRE a.k.a. Punyamurtula Kishore
MD has pleaded guilty, was sentenced to jail, and has been ordered to
pay $9.3 million in restitution for running an intricate Medicaid fraud
scheme involving millions of dollars in taxpayer funds, Attorney General
Maura Healey announced today.
Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore, 64,
along with his company Preventive Medicine Associates, Inc. (PMA),
pleaded guilty on Monday in Suffolk Superior Court. PMA pleaded guilty
to charges of Medicaid Kickbacks (8 counts), Medicaid False Claims (19
counts) and Larceny over $250 (11 counts). Dr. Kishore pleaded guilty to
one count of Larceny over $250.
“Dr. Kishore orchestrated a
complex kickback scheme to funnel a lucrative drug screening business to
his laboratories and then billed taxpayers millions of dollars for
those services,” AG Healey said. “This case exhibited blatant theft of
state funds that were supposed to go toward care for some of our most
vulnerable residents. This is fraud that undermines the integrity of our
health care system.”
Today, Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders
sentenced Kishore to 360 days in the House of Correction, with 11 months
to serve and the balance suspended for 10 years. As a condition to his
sentence, Kishore has also agreed to surrender his medical license.
Judge Sanders also ordered Kishore and PMA to pay, jointly and
severally, a total of $9.3 million in restitution.
Dr. Kishore
previously owned and managed PMA, a network of 29 medical branches
throughout Massachusetts, including physician office laboratories and
one independent clinical laboratory. Based on the AG’s investigation,
Dr. Kishore used bribes, or kickbacks, to induce sober house owners to
send their residents’ urine drug screening business to his laboratories
for testing. Residents were typically screened three times per week.
A
urine drug screen may be billed to MassHealth by a physician if the
screen is medically necessary. Drug screens generally are billed to the
MassHealth program for approximately $100 to $200. Dr. Kishore
manipulated his business relationships with sober house owners to
illegally obtain tens of thousands of drug screens paid for by
MassHealth for sober house residents who were never treated by PMA
providers.
In September 2011, Dr. Kishore and PMA were indicted,
and individually charged with Medicaid Kickbacks (8 counts), and
Medicaid False Claims (8 counts). In November 2013, Dr. Kishore and PMA
were indicted on additional charges of Medicaid False Claims (11 counts)
and Larceny over $250 (11 counts) for billing MassHealth for millions
of dollars in drug screens using the names of PMA physicians and nurse
practitioners who were not actually treating the patients or determining
the drug screens to be medically necessary. State regulations require
that the services must be medically necessary and the provider must be
physically present and actively involved in the treatment of the
member.
Two other individuals previously pleaded guilty to one
count of Medicaid Kickbacks in connection with their involvement in Dr.
Kishore’s scheme to defraud MassHealth. In June 2012, Damion Smith, 42,
of New Jersey, president of Fresh Start Recovery Coalition, was
sentenced to two years in the House of Correction suspended for two
years with probation. Carl Smith, 69, of Dorchester, manager of New
Horizon House, pleaded guilty in January 2015 and was sentenced to two
years in the House of Correction suspended for two years with probation.
The
case against Thomas Leonard of Malden, the part owner and manager of
the Marshall House, a sober house located in Malden, is ongoing. John
Coughlin of Carver, president of Gianna’s House Inc., which operates
several sober houses located in Wareham, New Bedford, and Sandwich,
began his trial today in Suffolk Superior Court.
This case, first
referred to the AG's Office by MassHealth, was prosecuted by Assistant
Attorneys General Angela Neal, David Scheffler, and Lee Hettinger of AG
Healey’s Medicaid Fraud Division with the assistance of victim witness
advocates John Malone and Amber Anderson. The case was investigated by
Erica Schlain and Denise Long of the Attorney General’s Office,
Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Attorney General’s Office,
Examiners from AG Healey’s Computer Forensics Lab, Special Agents from
the Boston Office of the United States Department of Health and Human
Services Office of the Inspector General, and investigators from the
Massachusetts Insurance Fraud Bureau also assisted in this case.
30 years of CORRUPTION , LIES, CHEATING AND STEALING is Punyamurtula Kishore MD aka Mad Dog Millionaire’s trademark . He was involved in Corruption when he was the Medical assistant Director of the Massachusetts Dept. of Correction , Martha Eliot Health Ctr , Roxbury Comprehensive Health Ctr. and his own Medical Practice , Preventive Medicine Associates.formerly Addiction Medicine Associates. He used two entities he created on paper that never existed called the National library of Addictions and the American College of Addiction to advocate his emergence in the field of addiction medicine. This unscrupulous MD used and exploited his patients and employees for financial wealth. The only thing that MAD DOG MILLIONAIRE aka Punyamurtula Kishore cared about was making money at the expense of Human misery
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“This case exhibited blatant theft of state funds that were supposed to go toward care for some of our most vulnerable residents. This is fraud that undermines the integrity of our health care system.”
(State Attorney General Maura Healey)
In the town of Brookline Massachusetts yet another Indian physician has been found guilty of defrauding Medicaid of millions of taxpayer funds, according to State Attorney General Maura Healey this morning.
How well do you know YOUR doctor?
How well do you know YOUR doctor?
Doctor Punyamurtula Kishore, age 64, whose ongoing scam business Preventive Medicine Associates provided an excellent cover for a monstrous kickback scheme, changed his “not guilty” plea to “guilty” yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court. He admitted to 19 counts of false Medicaid Claims; 8 counts of Medicaid Kickbacks and 11 other counts of grand theft.
Attorney General Healey said, “this doctor orchestrated a complex kickback scheme to funnel a lucrative drug screening business to his laboratories and then billed taxpayers millions of dollars for those services.”
As a result, Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders sentenced Kishore to 360 days in the jail and a 10-year suspended sentence. Kishore, age 63, was ordered to surrender his medical license and repay $9,300,000 in restitution.
Lab coat lunatic Kishore had owned and operated Preventive Medicine Associates, which managed about 30 laboratories in Massachusetts, including physician office labs. The prosecution was able to prove that Kishore used bribery to induce operators of alcohol and drug housing to refer their residents’ urine screening business to his laboratories for testing. Residents were typically screened three times per week.
By law, $100-$200 urine drug tests may legally be billed to MassHealth by a doctor if they are medically necessary. Kishore illegally obtained tens of thousands of drug screens paid for by MassHealth residents who were never qualified patients.
State regulations require that the services must be medically necessary and the provider must be physically present and actively involved in the treatment.
Here’s another look:
Our Observations:
This particular Third World Assassin graduated from Andhra Medical College in India in 1974. He immigrated to the U.S. and learned from his colleagues that the American medical system is rife with opportunities for massive theft. Had he been even slightly less greedy, it is likely he never would have been caught.
After his time in jail, do you wonder if this brazen public enemy will be deported?
Absolutely not. the United States does not deport foreign-born criminal doctors. We reward them.