A New York surgeon owes more than $2.2 million and received a 30-month jail sentence for a $22.6 million health insurance fraud scheme.
Boris Sachakov, 43, of Brooklyn, a colorectal surgeon who owned and operated a New York medical clinic, billed Medicare and private insurance companies $22.6 million for surgeries and other services he didn’t provide. He received more than $9 million on those claims.
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Sachakov must forfeit more than $1.1 million and pay restitution of more than $1.1 million to Medicare and the insurance plans.
A jury found Sachakov guilty of one count of health care fraud and five counts of false health care statements in June after a two-week federal trial. Authorities said after two insurance companies confronted Sachakov about false billings, he sent letters to his patients and asked them to certify, in writing, that they received the phony surgeries.
