Sixth Circuit Sets Aside Doctor’s Healthcare Fraud Convictions

The Sixth Circuit vacated a doctor’s healthcare fraud convictions after finding the federal district court made three reversible errors that weren’t “harmless.”

Among the cited errors, the district court abused its discretion in part by allowing lay witnesses to testify that a provider must personally examine a patient to determine the medical necessity for certain prescribed equipment, said Judge Ronald Lee Gilman in an Aug. 8 opinion for the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judges Eric L. Clay and Rachel S. Bloomekatz joined the opinion, remanding the case.

• A jury found Dr. Ankita Singh guilty of six ...