Though the DOJ did not release the name of Mohammed Khan’s hospital, a Houston Chronicle report said he worked at Riverside General Hospital. Riverside has not been charged.
Mr. Khan was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay and receive illegal healthcare kickbacks and five counts of paying or offering to pay healthcare kickbacks.
As an assistant administrator at the hospital, Mr. Khan allegedly operated a scheme to defraud Medicare from 2008 until his arrest by submitting false claims for partial hospitalization program services to Medicare. PHP is a form of intensive outpatient treatment for severe mental illness.
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