A doctor performed medically unnecessary procedures on her patients as part of a $796,000 health care scheme she ran at her suburban clinic outside of Chicago, Illinois, according to federal authorities.
Those procedures included endometrial ablations, records show, which is when “a thin layer of tissue (endometrium) that lines the uterus” is removed. This is typically done to reduce, or completely stop, heavy menstrual bleeding in women who do not plan to have children, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Other medically unnecessary procedures the doctor is accused of performing included endometrial biopsies and tests for sexually transmitted diseases, prosecutors said.
Mona Ghosh, 50, was recently indicted on 13 counts of health care fraud, according to a March 14 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
The defense attorney representing Ghosh did not immediately respond to a request for comment from McClatchy News on March 15.
Authorities said Ghosh, of Inverness, defrauded TRICARE, Medicaid and private insurance companies from February 2018 to April 2022. She did so while working as a licensed physician at Progressive Women’s Healthcare, S.C. in Hoffman Estates, authorities said. Records show the clinic has since closed.
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