{"id":55725,"date":"2025-11-21T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/55725\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:22:09","slug":"doctor-agrees-to-45m-medicare-fraud-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/55725\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor agrees to $45M Medicare fraud settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NGR3GCUQHBEYRFMK76FG7RGGVA.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>Gavel Generic <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Federal prosecutors in Miami announced on Friday that a physician agreed to a $45 million settlement in a Medicare fraud case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prosecutors described Dr. Ameet Vohra as one of the nation\u2019s largest providers of bedside specialty wound care for nursing home patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators accused Vohra, the owner of Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC, of engaging in \u201ca nationwide scheme to bill Medicare\u201d for surgical procedures that \u201cwere either not medically necessary or had not been performed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vohra allegedly \u201cpressured, trained, and provided financial incentives\u201d for physicians and \u201cprogrammed its electronic health record and billing software to ensure that Medicare was always billed for the higher-reimbursed surgical excisional procedure and to create false medical record documentation to support the scheme,\u201d according to the prosecutor\u2019s lawsuit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Under the settlement, Vohra will enter into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services and agreed to \u201cdevelop and maintain a compliance program, implement a risk assessment process and hire an independent review organization\u201d to \u201creview its claims and health information technology systems,\u201d according to prosecutors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Federal investigators asked anyone with information about fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement to call the Department of Health and Human Services at 1-800-447-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. 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