Dr Punyamurtula Kishore - in healthcare, the criminals hide in plain sight
“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?
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.
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