{"id":253692,"date":"2013-04-23T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253692"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T20:55:41","slug":"texas-doctor-indicted-for-health-care-fraud-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253692","title":{"rendered":"Texas Doctor Indicted for Health Care Fraud Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/Federal-Courthouse-1A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/Federal-Courthouse-1A.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Courthouse-1A\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-253818\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 A Dallas County physician has made an initial appearance in Tyler federal court after being arrested and charged with health care fraud violations in an area that reportedly included parts of East Texas. Tariq Mahmood, 61, of Cedar Hill, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 11 and charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and seven counts of health care fraud. Mahmood appeared Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge John D. Love. <\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Mahmood, a general practitioner, owned and operated several hospitals in the state of Texas, including Cozby Germany Hospital in Grand Saline, Renaissance Terrell Hospital in Terrell, Central Texas Hospital in Cameron, Community General Hospital in Dilley, and Shelby Regional Medical Center in Center. From April 2010 to April 2013, Mahmood and others are alleged to have carried out a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through the submission of false and fraudulent claims. <\/p>\n<p>Mahmood and others allegedly added, changed, deleted, and incorrectly sequenced diagnostic codes in a way that did not reflect the actual diagnoses and conditions of the patients. Authorities allege that they submitted false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid based on the added, changed, deleted, and incorrectly sequenced diagnostic codes. By means of fraudulent billing practices, the defendant and his co-conspirators are alleged to have unlawfully submitted false claims of more than $1.1 million and obtained more than $375,000. If convicted, Mahmood faces up to 10 years in federal prison for each charge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A Dallas County physician has made an initial appearance in Tyler federal court after being arrested and charged with health care fraud violations in an area that reportedly included parts of East Texas. Tariq Mahmood, 61, of Cedar Hill, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 11 and charged with conspiracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Doctor Indicted for Health Care Fraud Violations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 18:11:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253692"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253913,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253692\/revisions\/253913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}