Wisconsin man gets 15 months in prison for role in healthcare kickback scheme
(WFRV) – U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that a Wisconsin man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for violating the 'Anti-Kickback Statute.'
According to a release, Mohammed Kazim Ali paid healthcare kickbacks and must pay over $2 million in restitution to Medicaid and Medicare along with a $75,000 fine.
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Ali and co-defendant Justin Hanson owned a Milwaukee-area lab named 'Noah Associates.'
Starting in 2017, the two of them engaged in a three-year-long scheme to pay kickbacks to a Milwaukee substance use treatment clinic owner in exchange for referrals of Medicaid and Medicare patients for urine drug tests by Noah Associates.
The duo paid over $400,000 in kickbacks for the tests, which weren't ordered by a physician nor medically needed for any treatments. One physician learned that the credentials were being used without authorization and urged Ali to stop.
Ali continued to accept and bill the government for these falsely ordered tests for several months. As a result, Noah Associates received over $2.2 million for the tests courtesy of Medicaid and Medicare, while Ali took in over $800,000 from this scheme.
In addition to the prison time, Ali is excluded from Medicaid and Medicare participation and his Noah Associates was shut down. Co-defendant Justin Hanson also pled guilty and will be sentenced on March 21.
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For more information on the Anti-Kickback Statute, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.
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