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Doctor accused in kickback scheme indicted in separate scheme
Subir Maitra leaves the the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on April 16, 2013. (Terrence Antonio James / April 16, 2013)
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A doctor accused in an elaborate kickback scheme involving unnecessary surgeries at a Chicago hospital has been indicted on separate charges that he sent patients from his Little Village clinic to surgery centers in northwest Indiana and fraudulently billed their insurance for procedures that were never performed.
Dr. Subir Maitra, 73, was indicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hammond on six counts of health care fraud.
According to the indictment, Maitra targeted primarily Hispanic patients who had a limited grasp of English and were covered by private insurance.
Maitra routinely had patients from his clinic bused to two northwest Indiana facilities — Hind Hospital in Hobart and Lakeside Surgery Center in East Chicago — for urological surgeries, the charges allege.
On six occasions in 2008 and 2009, Maitra billed a patient's insurance for a cystometrogram, a test that involves inserting a catheter into a patient's bladder through the urethra, but he actually had not performed the test, according to the charges. The fraud involved about $3,000, authorities said.
At the time of the alleged fraud, Lakeside Surgery Center was owned by Raghuveer Nayak, a fundraiser for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and an associate of Maitra currently awaiting trial on charges he secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to physicians to have patients referred to his facilities.
In April, Maitra was one of six doctors and administrators charged in an alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago's West Side that involved everything from unnecessary sedation to penile implants, all fraudulently billed to Medicare and Medicaid. Prosecutors said the scheme netted more than $225,000 in cash and at least $2 million in health care program reimbursements.
jmeisner@tribune.com
Dr. Subir Maitra, 73, was indicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hammond on six counts of health care fraud.
According to the indictment, Maitra targeted primarily Hispanic patients who had a limited grasp of English and were covered by private insurance.
Maitra routinely had patients from his clinic bused to two northwest Indiana facilities — Hind Hospital in Hobart and Lakeside Surgery Center in East Chicago — for urological surgeries, the charges allege.
On six occasions in 2008 and 2009, Maitra billed a patient's insurance for a cystometrogram, a test that involves inserting a catheter into a patient's bladder through the urethra, but he actually had not performed the test, according to the charges. The fraud involved about $3,000, authorities said.
At the time of the alleged fraud, Lakeside Surgery Center was owned by Raghuveer Nayak, a fundraiser for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and an associate of Maitra currently awaiting trial on charges he secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to physicians to have patients referred to his facilities.
In April, Maitra was one of six doctors and administrators charged in an alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago's West Side that involved everything from unnecessary sedation to penile implants, all fraudulently billed to Medicare and Medicaid. Prosecutors said the scheme netted more than $225,000 in cash and at least $2 million in health care program reimbursements.
jmeisner@tribune.com
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