The U.S. government has brought a lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC, one of the nation's leading providers of specialty wound care services, and its owner, Dr. Ameet Vohra, for allegedly submitting forged claims to Medicare. According to the Justice Department, the complaint accuses the defendants of causing false claims to be made for overbilled and medically unnecessary services across the hundreds of nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities they serve.
In a detailed accounting of the allegations, the complaint lodged with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida maintains that the defendants knowingly put in place a nationwide scheme to bill Medicare for surgical debridement procedures that were either not completed or not medically necessary. Debridement is a medical procedure intended to expedite healing by removing dead or infected tissue from a wound. The defendants, according to the Justice Department, accomplished this through several strategies including the use of proprietary Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software designed to automatically bill these procedures as surgical interventions.
The company's employment and training practices also came under fire. Vohra allegedly hired physicians without the necessary expertise in wound care and provided them with training that purposefully overlooked relevant Medicare payment rules. Further, the complaint suggests that Vohra Wound Physicians...
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