A Texas psychiatrist was convicted on Tuesday for his role in a $158 million Medicare fraud scheme that involved paying kickbacks to nursing home employees in exchange for patient referrals.
Riaz Mazcuri, M.D., along with other healthcare providers, engaged in a scheme between 2006 and 2012 to admit patients into an intensive psychiatric program known as a partial hospitalization program, or PHP, through Riverside General Hospital in Houston.
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