The jury convicted Dr. Myint of one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud after a week-long trial. The conspiracy count carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, according to the release. Prior to trial, 10 of Dr. Myint’s co-conspirator defendants pleaded guilty to a variety of Medicare fraud related charges.
According to trial evidence, Dr. Myint was the physician at Sacred Hope Center, a Southfield, Mich., clinic that purported to specialize in providing infusion therapy to Medicare beneficiaries. Dr. Myint signed patient files ordering infusions and injections of corticosteroids and other medications, despite being aware that the patients did not need the drugs and that Medicare was being billed for the drugs, according to the release.
Trial evidence established that patients were not referred to Sacred Hope Center or Dr. Myint by their real physicians for any legitimate purpose, but rather were recruited to come to the clinic through the payment of kickbacks. In the six months between Sept.2006 and March 2007, Dr. Myint and his co-conspirators caused around $4.2 million in claims to be submitted to the Medicare program for services that were unnecessary and never provided, according to the release.
Dr. Myint was acquitted on charges of filing three specific false claims, according to the release.
Read the release about Dr. Toe Myint.
