(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong today announced a $4.2 million joint state and federal settlement with physician Jasdeep Sidana and his businesses DOCS Medical Group, Inc., DOCS Medical Inc., DOCS Urgent Care LLP, Lung Docs of CT, P.C., Epic Family Physicians, LLP and Continuum Medical Group, LLC. Dr. The settlement resolves allegations that Sidana and his businesses submitted false claims for payment to Medicare and the Connecticut Medicaid program for medically unnecessary allergy services, unsupervised allergy services, and services improperly billed as though provided by Sidana. The agreement also resolves allegations that Sidana and DOCS improperly billed for certain office visits associated with COVID-19 tests.
Sidana is a physician who specializes in pulmonology and is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of DOCS, a medical practice with more than 20 facilities throughout Connecticut that offers a variety of services to its patients, including primary and urgent care, allergy testing and treatment, and COVID testing.
Medicare and Connecticut Medicaid pay only for services or items that are medically necessary. Some services also have supervision requirements, and allergy tests and the preparation of allergy immunotherapy must be directly supervised by a physician. Direct supervision requires the supervising physician to be present in the same office suite, and immediately available to render assistance if needed.
In early 2014, DOCS...
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