06/17/2025
Manishkumar Patel was sentenced to 14 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $48 million in restitution for defrauding Medicare. Documents and court statements say that Patel and a co-conspirator fraudulently sold prescriptions (scripts) and doctors’ orders for durable medical equipment (DME), pharmaceuticals, and laboratory tests to DME suppliers, pharmacies, and laboratories. Patel turned information from beneficiary calls into scripts by arranging cursory telemedicine appointments with the beneficiaries, a practice called “doctor chasing.” Many beneficiaries rejected the items they were sent. Read a story from the Westfair Business Journal and a Department of Justice press release.