The US Department of Justice said Friday that Ameet Vohra and his companies, including Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC, agreed to pay $45 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing the submission of claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary surgical procedures and other misconduct.
Vohra is one of the nation’s largest providers of bedside specialty wound care for patients in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. The government alleged that Vohra pressured, trained, and provided financial incentives for physicians to perform debridement procedures during as many patient visits as possible regardless of the patients’ ...