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Darien resident Ramil Mansourov, who owned and operated Family Urgent Health Care in Norwalk, has been sentenced to 87 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to health care fraud and money laundering offenses.
Mansourov, 49, purchased Immediate Health Care from Bharat Patel in 2012, renaming it Family Urgent Health Care, and allowed Patel to continue to work for the practice, John Durham, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, said.
From 2014 through November 2016, Mansourov billed Medicaid $4,994,027 for home, office and nursing home visits that never took place. During that time, Mansourov transferred some of the stolen funds to a bank account in Switzerland, then moved more than $1.3 million from that account to several domestic bank accounts, which were used for both personal and business expenses.
When the investigation heated up, Mansourov was arrested while attempting to flee to Canada on July 13, 2017. He has been in custody since.
In addition to his prison time, Mansourov was ordered to pay $4,994,027 in restitution, forfeit $50,000 and surrender his federal controlled substances registration to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
On June 25, Patel pleaded guilty to narcotics distribution and health care fraud offenses. Patel admitted that he wrote hundreds of medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone and hydrocodone, and received $158,523.95 from federal health programs as a result of this scheme.
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