Crime & Safety

ICYMI: Brookline Doctor Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Scheme, Sentenced to Jail

He has reportedly been ordered to pay $9.3 million in restitution.

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on April 7.

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A Brookline doctor has pleaded guilty, was sentenced to jail, and has been ordered to pay $9.3 million in restitution for running an intricate Medicaid fraud scheme involving millions of dollars in taxpayer funds, courts announced Tuesday.

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Dr. Punyamurtula Kishore, 64, along with his company Preventive Medicine Associates, Inc. (PMA), pleaded guilty on Monday in Suffolk Superior Court.

PMA pleaded guilty to charges of Medicaid Kickbacks on eight counts,19 counts of Medicaid false claims and 11 counts of larceny over $250, according to a recent press release.

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Kishore was sentenced to 360 days in the House of Correction, with 11 months to serve and the balance suspended for 10 years. As a condition to his sentence, Kishore has also agreed to surrender his medical license. Judge Sanders also ordered Kishore and PMA to pay, jointly and severally, a total of $9.3 million in restitution to MassHealth.

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