July 1, 2014

Detroit-area physician, Walayat Khan, pleaded guilty for his role in a $7M health care fraud scheme. According to court documents, beginning in January 2009, Dr. Khan and others agreed that he would refer Medicare beneficiaries to Advance Home Health Care Services, Inc., Perfect Home Health Care Services, LLP and other Detroit-area home health care agencies for medically unnecessary home health services. Dr. Khan signed medical documents for these beneficiaries, falsely certifying they required home health care and they were under his care. The complicit home health care agencies then used Dr. Khan’s false documents to support their claims to Medicare for home health services that were never rendered or not medically necessary. DOJ

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