Physician Jailed 10 Years For Bogus Medical Billing
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India-West Staff Reporter
CHICAGO, IL – A suburban Chicago physician has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for orchestrating a multi-year scheme to defraud Medicaid and private insurers. She was also ordered to pay approximately $1.5 million in restitution.
U.S. District Judge Franklin U. Valderrama imposed the sentence on June 9, after Ghosh pleaded guilty last year to two counts of healthcare fraud.
Ghosh, 52, of Inverness, owned and operated Progressive Women’s Healthcare, S.C., in Hoffman Estates. From 2018 to 2022, Ghosh and her employees submitted fraudulent claims. These included billing for non-existent and medically unnecessary procedures such as endometrial ablations, biopsies, ultrasounds, vaccinations, and various blood and STD tests. Some procedures were performed without patient consent.
Ghosh also inflated billing for office and telemedicine visits by overstating their length and complexity, using codes that qualified for higher reimbursement rates. She further prepared false medical records to support these fraudulent claims.
“When physicians submit fraudulent claims to federal health care programs, they divert taxpayer-funded resources away from those who truly need them,” stated U.S. Attorney Boutros. He added that Ghosh’s scheme was “particularly egregious because she endangered the health of her patients by performing unnecessary medical procedures, including procedures that severely limited some patients’ ability to have children in the future.”
prabhakar joshi
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president Trump is doing the right thing in detecting and clearing such fraudulent activities. He says savings will be in billions of dollars.
June 14, 2025Camille Graham
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The insurance companies rake off billions of dollars of profit, which is not plowed back into patient care. Very few physicians have this level of fraud. It is doubtful that we will come close to saving “billions of dollars.”
June 16, 2025Raju N/A Thomas
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Had too be an Indian to disgrace the rest of Indians . She’s the type of person that will jump in to a septic tank for a dropped penny
June 19, 2025Bob Moore
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Except this prosecution occured and she pleaded guilty under the Biden Administration. They only way Trump will be involved is when she pays him a million or two for a pardon….
June 16, 2025M ward
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It isn’t Trump who detected this. It was the EXISTING STATE AND FEDERAL agencies. This investigation was ongoing for years.
June 17, 2025Jaye Jones
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All presidents has been doing this every since medicaid and medicare was established. It’s nothing new here. Trump did not start this, Neither did he put the system in place to investigate, review and investigate. Most of what’s going on in the government was established before this administration.
June 18, 2025Cathy
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
June 18, 2025John
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This case was investigated and prosecuted during Biden administration; the sentencing phase happened during Trump administration.
If Trump’s record for pardons is any indication, then he may pardon her, depending on what she offers him.
June 19, 2025Jennifer Swaner
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Absolutely. Then he will have funds to pay for his parade so we wont have to.
June 19, 2025Christina simmons
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Saving huh? So where is all this saved money going? Bc I don’t see it period.
June 15, 2025EllenS
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You realize this has been going on for years. That’s why insurance premiums keep rising because of fraudulent claims and also pharmaceutical companies charging outrageous prices. That’s what this administration is working to resolve.
June 16, 2025Kay Short
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She destroyed her life with greed.
June 16, 2025Wendy Maxwell
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For the parade!
June 16, 2025Naj
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Ho Look at that smug arrogant smile! just got wiped off!
June 17, 2025Naj
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Ho Look at that smug arrogant smile! just got wiped off!
June 17, 2025Dummy destroyed a career.
Naomi page
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What abouts the doctors and dentist that did medicaid fraud in 80’s and 90’s. The government did not prosecute them but cut benefits for individuals needing braces and dental work stating it had to be a medical necessity. People were punished and not the dentist.
June 18, 2025Delerose Adetoro
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It wasn’t Trump that will be praised. Justice from God because she has been doing this fraudulent activities for long but God now has intervene to stop her greediness.
June 19, 2025