MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRING WITH DOCTOR IN FRAUD AND KICKBACK SCHEMES
By: Danyelle H. Golland, Esq.
On February 1, 2016, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office issued a press release indicating that Mohammed Shamshair pled guilty to paying 22 doctors $1.76 million in kickbacks for referrals of patients. Mohammed Shamshair admitted to paying 12 doctors $1.56 million in return referrals to Dr. Manoj Patharkar and his two pain management clinics. Mohammed Shamshair admitted to paying more than $200,000 in kickbacks to 10 additional doctors connected to a kickback scheme with Rehan Zuberi.
For more information on Mohammed Shamshair’s guilty plea, please see the attached press release from the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General from February 1, 2016,