LITTLE ROCK — A Rogers doctor facing fraud charges billed Medicaid for high levels of care but seldom treated patients, according to an affidavit used to secure an arrest warrant.
Dr. Brian Thomas Hyatt, 49, faces two counts of felony Medicaid fraud in Pulaski County Circuit Court. He was arrested Monday in Rogers.
Security footage and statements from eyewitnesses and former employees of Northwest Medical Center’s Behavioral Health Unit provide clear evidence Hyatt was not treating patients at the level required to justify his billing to Medicaid, according to the affidavit filed by Gregory McKay, a senior special agent for the Medicaid Fraud Unit of the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office.
“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,” the affidavit states.
McKay concludes that based on Medicaid guidelines, the therapy services should not have been billed by Hyatt.
“The overwhelming response from the former patients was that they did not know who Dr. Hyatt was or they recognized him as the man pushing the cart up and down the hallways,” according to the affidavit.
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