Harry Persaud, MD, a cardiologist from Ohio, was ordered to pay nearly $5.5 million in restitution for performing unnecessary heart procedures, Cleveland.com reports.
In December, Persaud was sentenced to 20 years in prison for overbilling Medicare and private insurance companies by $29 million between 2006 and 2012. Persaud is required to pay his victims before reimbursing the federal government or insurance companies.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.