Rajendra Bothra, MD, owned two clinics, the Pain Center USA and Interventional Pain Center in Warren, Mich. The Justice Department alleged the clinics billed for medically unnecessary services between 2015 and 2018, according to a Aug. 24 news release.
The Justice Department alleged the clinic charged Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, sedation services and back braces.
In 2022, Dr. Bothra and three other physicians were found not guilty in an alleged $500 million scheme to defraud Medicaid and Medicare through illegally prescribing opioids, according to a Detroit Free-Press report.
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