The FBI is asking for the public’s help in finding additional victims of a Hoffman Estates doctor who was recently indicted on 13 counts of health care fraud after allegedly bilking Medicaid and multiple health care programs out of nearly $800,000, officials said.
A website and online questionnaire have been created to identify any more victims of Dr. Mona Ghosh, according to a statement from FBI spokesperson Siobhan Johnson.
Ghosh is a licensed physician who owned and operated Progressive Women’s health care, S. C. in Hoffman Estates and was recently indicted on 13 counts of health care fraud, the statement said.
Ghosh is alleged to have defrauded multiple health care benefit programs, including Medicaid, for services that were not provided as billed.
She allegedly submitted false claims for medical procedures such as endometrial ablation and services such as laboratory testing that were not medically necessary and/or never rendered, Johnson said in the statement. These included claims for purported telemedicine visits when Ghosh did not speak to the patient, claims for office visits and procedures when Ghosh did not see the patient, and claims for procedures predicated on false diagnosis, the FBI said.
“Targeting government and private health care programs relied on by the public to maintain their well-being is a serious crime,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Morris Pasqual in a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.
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