Dr. Brian Hyatt, the former chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board, was arrested Monday on a warrant related to felony Medicaid fraud charges.
Hyatt resigned from the board earlier this year in the face of ongoing state and federal investigations and his suspension from Medicaid.
A warrant issued Monday repeats many, but also adds to the, allegations against the Northwest Arkansas psychiatrist that were first made public in an Advocate investigation in February.
In an affidavit, an investigator from the Arkansas attorney general’s office accuses Hyatt of devising a scheme to bill Medicaid and other health insurance providers for psychiatric care that was never provided while he was running the behavioral health unit at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale.
“From January 1, 2022 until April 29, 2022, Dr. Brian Hyatt and the staff that he trained and supervised submitted false Medicaid claims on Dr. Hyatt’s behalf for a level of care that the patients at the [behavioral health unit] were not receiving,” the affidavit states. “Security footage, eyewitness statements from patients and eyewitness statements from former employees of NWMC provide clear evidence that Dr. Hyatt was not treating patients at the level expected to bill for CPT code 99233.”
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said late Monday afternoon Hyatt was arrested by the Rogers Police Department and will make his first appearance in Pulaski County circuit court later this month.
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