BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts physician was charged Tuesday with defrauding well being care advantages applications by billing for providers that weren’t supplied, federal prosecutors stated.
Olarewaju James Oladipo, 57, of Canton, faces 11 counts of well being care fraud, in accordance with an announcement from the U.S. lawyer’s workplace in Boston. Oladipo, an orthopedic surgeon, was scheduled to face a Justice of the Peace decide later Tuesday.
An e mail in search of remark was despatched to his federal public defender.
Oladipo falsified medical information of affected person visits to replicate examinations and providers that weren’t carried out for a interval from January 2016 till December 2019, prosecutors alleged. He did so through the use of billing codes for extra complicated and subsequently costlier providers that weren’t supplied, a apply often known as “upcoding,” prosecutors stated.
He typically billed for greater than 60 sufferers per day and generally greater than 90 sufferers per day, that means that the majority visits might have solely lasted about 5 minutes, prosecutors stated. Nevertheless, he allegedly used billing codes that usually corresponded to visits that may have lasted for much longer, as much as 45 minutes in some instances.
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