GREAT NECK, NY — A Bayside woman was sentenced to seven years in prison after operating an “oxycodone pill mill” out of her Great Neck doctor’s office, officials said.
The Department of Justice/U.S. Attorney’s Office said Dr. Roya Jafari-Hassad was sentenced on Mar. 2 in federal court in Central Islip by United States District Judge Gary R. Brown. The DOJ said she was sentenced after prescribing oxycodone pills without a legitimate medical purpose and fraudulently billing insurance providers for procedures that were never performed.
Judge Brown imposed a fine of $150,000 and ordered Jafari-Hassad to pay $152,765 as restitution, the DOJ said. The Great Neck family practice doctor was convicted at trial in December 2024 of eight counts of prescribing oxycodone pills without a legitimate medical purpose, and she pleaded guilty to health care fraud in April 2025, the DOJ said.
“Dr. Jafari-Hassad used her medical practice to deal drugs, a disgraceful betrayal of her doctor’s oath to do no harm,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said. “Today’s sentence holds her accountable for capitalizing on her patients’ dangerous opioid addictions to enrich herself. A jail term and serious financial penalties should serve as a warning to other healthcare professionals that when they unlawfully prioritize profit over patient well-being, they will be brought to justice.”
The DEA Associate Chief of Operations, Frank A. Tarentino III, added:
“Dr. Jafari-Hassad knew the harmful effects opioids could have on her patients, and yet she chose to jeopardize their health by turning her medical office into a modern-day pill mill.”
Jafari-Hassad was a licensed physician who provided medical services from her offices located in Great Neck, Forest Hills, Queens, and Manhattan, the DOJ said. For years – from Jan. 2019 through May 2022 – the doctor charged her patients hundreds of dollars in exhange for monthly prescription of the highly addictive and potent oxycodone with no legitimate medical purpose, the DOJ said.
Sometimes, the doctor prescribed the drug without even seeing the patient for an appointment, and instead, just obtained the patient’s payment, the DOJ said.
The DOJ said Jafari-Hassad made an estimated hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from these payments from her patients, and she also submitted false and fraudulent claims. These false and fraudulent claims were submitted to Medicare and private benefit programs for medical services that she did not perform, and she charged – and was paid for – through the insurance companies for the services, the DOJ said.
The case is being handled by the Criminal Section of the Office’s Long Island Division, the DOJ said. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Charles P. Kelly and Katherine Onyshko are in charge of the prosecution, with the assistance of Paralegal Specialist Samantha Schroder and Victim-Witness Specialist Stephanie Marroquin, the DOJ said.