Dr. Harry Persaud leaving the court premises
A doctor who scammed patients by forcing them to undergo unnecessary surgeries in order to reap financial benefits has been sentenced to a long jail term.
An Ohio cardiologist has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for forcing patients to undergo surgeries that were unnecessary - so that he could reap financial rewards.
Dr. Harry Persaud who was practicing in Westlake was convicted of persuading patients to have major operations like open heart surgery - that they did not need - for his own financial gain.
He allegedly made over $5.6 million from Medicare and private insurance companies from the medical fraud.
He was found guilty of health care fraud, making false statements regarding health care matters and money laundering on December 18, The Inquisitr reported.
Dr Persuad went to school and trained to be a doctor in the UK after moving to London at the age of 10 from British Guyana.
According to the FBI, he carried out his scam between 2006 and 2012 when he over-billed insurance companies and the Medicare system.
And his patients ranged in age from their 40s to their 90s.
Dr Persaud allegedly scammed patients by falsifying the results of their exams which made it seem as though they needed to have specific procedures carried out when they didn't.
Some patients were allegedly injected with radioactive material for heart tests, other patients underwent bypass operations or had stents for problems that they did not have.
His scam came to light after a doctor noticed test results and referrals that he'd made for more procedures that seemed unnecessary.
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