Tuesday, June 21, 2016

MAD DOG who ran Cape addiction treatment offices loses right to renew license

MAD DOG who once offered addiction treatment at several Cape offices lost his right to renew his license to practice medicine at the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine meeting Thursday.
The action against Dr. Punyamurtula S. Kishore, of Brookline, who operated a statewide 29-office chain known as Preventive Medicine Associates Inc. was a formality since the doctor was sentenced to a year in prison in April and agreed as a condition of his sentence to give up his medical license.
Kishore had pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay $9.3 million in restitution for running a Medicaid fraud scheme involving millions of taxpayer dollars, according to a statement from Attorney General Maura Healey.
An investigation by Healey's office showed Kishore bribed the owners of sober houses with insurance kickbacks to send patients needing urine screens to his treatment centers. 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. Kishore manipulated his business relationships with sober-house owners to illegally obtain tens of thousands of drug screens paid for by MassHealth for house residents who were never treated by Kishore's doctors.
Kishore, a 1974 graduate of Andhra Medical College in India, specialized in addiction medicine and was first licensed in Massachusetts in 1974.

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