The owner of addiction clinics in Massachusetts, Punyamurtula Kishore, MD, has pleaded not guilty to orchestrating a fraud kickback scheme in which he funneled drug screenings to a non-profit company he created, according to a Boston Globe report.
Dr. Kishore owned and managed Preventive Medicine Associates, a chain of 30 medical offices throughout the state. He allegedly bilked as much as $597,000 from MassHealth through 2006-2010 and possibly stole millions of dollars more from Medicaid in other schemes, according to the report. Charges are still pending.
Dr. Kishore currently faces allegations that he paid sober houses in exchange for their sending urine screenings to a non-profit that Dr. Kishore created: the National Library of Addictions. He has denied those charges.
Dr. Kishore has closed many of his offices in recent weeks, a move officials think may have been in preparation to flee the country and prosecution. He is being held on $150,000 bail pending a pretrial arraignment Oct. 12.
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Dr. Kishore owned and managed Preventive Medicine Associates, a chain of 30 medical offices throughout the state. He allegedly bilked as much as $597,000 from MassHealth through 2006-2010 and possibly stole millions of dollars more from Medicaid in other schemes, according to the report. Charges are still pending.
Dr. Kishore currently faces allegations that he paid sober houses in exchange for their sending urine screenings to a non-profit that Dr. Kishore created: the National Library of Addictions. He has denied those charges.
Dr. Kishore has closed many of his offices in recent weeks, a move officials think may have been in preparation to flee the country and prosecution. He is being held on $150,000 bail pending a pretrial arraignment Oct. 12.
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