CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 57-year-old Houston resident entered a guilty plea in Corpus Christi federal court for conspiring to commit health care fraud.
A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Texas said, Ravinder Syal admitted engaging in a scheme that resulted in the false billing of $4,878,530.92 for services never provided to patients.
From Feb. 1, 2018, until March 1, 2020, he acquired physicians’ practices throughout Texas and assumed control of their billing department. He then brought in a company located in India to bill false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and various insurance providers.
Source: Houston man admits to role in over $4 million health care fraud scheme / ValleyCentral.com