Federal prosecutors have charged a Pittsford doctor with health care fraud and making false statements. According to a criminal complaint filed in court, Dr. Muhammad Cheema is a psychiatrist in private practice who also sees patients at Rochester Regional Health and various nursing homes around Rochester. The FBI began investigating the 45-year-old doctor […]
A Rochester man has been arrested for misusing Medicaid to obtain and sell prescription painkillers. The New York State Attorney General’s Office says Ronald Lockwood illegally filled and sold prescriptions billed to Medicaid worth more than $12,000 for 12,500 Oxycodone pills. The 44-year-old Rochester man then sold those opioid pills to drug dealers in the […]
A Rochester nurse who falsified time sheets to collect $19,000 in extra Medicaid compensation has been sentenced to three years probation and to pay back the money. The New York Attorney General’s Office says 34-year-old Jill Tiefel pled guilty to a petit larceny charge after she was caught claiming 269 hours that were either not […]