RIGHT SPEAK: Frisco Doctor Agrees to Pay $3.5 Million to Settle COVID Billing Fraud Claims; Apple Valley Woman Latest to Be Charged in Feeding Our Future Fraud, and other C-Virus related stories

Frisco doctor agrees to pay $3.5 million to settle COVID billing fraud claims

Samad Khan billed a federal health care program for COVID-19 testing services not provided, the government says.

A Frisco physician has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle government accusations that his medical clinic defrauded a federal health care program by billing for COVID-19 services that were not provided, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Samad Khan paid the money to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act through submittals to the Health Resources and Services Administration, officials said.

The allegations relate to a program for uninsured individuals that reimbursed health care providers from May 2020 to April 2022 for COVID-19 tests, treatment and vaccines.

Khan could not be reached Monday for comment. His medical clinic in Frisco, SK Primary Care PLLC, is listed as inactive in Texas corporation records. A phone number for the clinic is disconnected.

The clinic collected specimens for COVID-19 tests during the pandemic and provided related services at “dozens” of COVID testing sites, authorities said.

Khan submitted the false claims from April 2020 to October 2021 for higher level services that weren’t provided, officials said. --->READ MORE HERE

Apple Valley woman latest to be charged in Feeding Our Future fraud

An Apple Valley woman is the 72nd person federally charged for her role in the $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced Friday.

Dorothy Jean Moore, 57, was charged in a federal indictment with three counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering, Thompson said in a news release.

According to the release, Moore launched two purported federal child nutrition program sites in late 2020 under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future. Moore completed and signed meal count forms, claiming to have served 1,500 meals to children each day at each of her sites, which she said she operated out of community churches.

Moore claimed and received reimbursements for those meals through the Feeding Our Future program, the release said. In addition, she said she operated a catering company called Jean’s Soul Food and claimed additional federal reimbursements for food from that company used at the other sites.

The release cited her bank records, saying they show she used “little of the reimbursement dollars she received to purchase food. Instead, Moore used those funds for other purposes, including to purchase cars and fund an enhanced lifestyle.” --->READ MORE HERE