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Harvard-Educated Sleep Doctor Slept Well In Brookline Home He Bought Defrauding Patients: Feds Harvard-Educated Sleep Doctor Slept Well In Brookline Home He Bought Defrauding Patients: Feds
Harvard-Educated Sleep Doctor Slept Well In Brookline Home He Bought Defrauding Patients: Feds A federal grand jury indicted a Brookline sleep doctor this week on charges that he ran multiple frauds and laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him purchase a $1.6 million home in the toney town.   Dr. Pankaj Merchia, 49, faces three counts of money laundering and one count of health care fraud stemming from the alleged schemes, the US Attorney's Office said.  The indictment lays out the two alleged frauds. In one, Merchia continued to bill patients' insurance companies for monthly rentals of CPAP and BiPap machines — breathing devices used to treat sleep …

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Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Taking Kickbacks For Bogus Brain Scan Orders Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Taking Kickbacks For Bogus Brain Scan Orders
Popular CT Eye Doctor Admits To Taking Kickbacks For Bogus Brain Scan Orders A well-known Connecticut eye doctor admitted in Boston federal court to receiving kickbacks and racking up millions in bogus insurance and Medicare bills by ordering unnecessary brain scans, officials said. A licensed medical doctor in the State of Connecticut for 36 years, Donald Salzberg owned and operated Donald J. Salzberg, M.D., on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford, CT. Salzberg, who lives in Avon, conspired with a principal for a medical diagnostics company to order hundreds of transcranial doppler (TCD) scans in exchange for money between 2014 and 2019, …

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