A Fairfield County physician has pleaded guilty to health-care fraud and money-laundering charges.
Ramil Mansourov, 49, principal of Family Health Urgent Care in Norwalk, entered guilty pleas yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven.
According to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, between 2014 and November 2016, Mansourov billed Medicaid nearly $5 million for home, office and nursing home visits that never took place. Mansourov transferred some of the stolen funds to a bank account in Switzerland and then moved more than $1.3 million from the Swiss bank account to at least three of his own domestic bank accounts.
According to court documents, Mansourov used the stolen funds for both personal and business purposes.
Mansourov’s Norwalk practice, Family Health Urgent Care, was formerly owned by Bharat Patel and known as Immediate Health Care. In 2012, Mansourov purchased the practice from Patel, who continued to work at the now-renamed practice.
On June 25, Patel pleaded guilty to narcotics distribution and multiple health-care fraud offenses. Patel admitted that he wrote hundreds of medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone and hydrocodone, and received $158,524 from federal health programs as a result of this and related criminal conduct. Patel has been in custody since his arrest in July 2017.
Mansourov faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years, a fine of up to approximately $10 million, and an order of restitution. Judge Arterton scheduled sentencing for Dec.ember 5.
Mansourov also has agreed to forfeit $50,000, and surrender his federal controlled-substances registration to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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