New York City Cardiologist Accused of Medicare Fraud by Feds

A Brooklyn cardiologist and his medical practice allegedly violated the False Claims Act by seeking Medicare and Medicaid payments for unreasonable peripheral vascular and cardiac tests and procedures, a Thursday complaint says.

Niranjan Kumar Mittal and New York PET Imaging Center LLC, among other defendants, billed the government health-care programs regardless of medical needs, and fabricated office visit notes about patients’ conditions to justify medical tests, according to complaint filed by federal prosecutors at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

These procedures—imposed on patients that received little or no medical benefit—became the “cash cow” of ...