who are these doctors? FBI reported A Bloomfield Hills doctor Aria O. Sabit was arrested Nov. 24, charged in a criminal complaint for his role in a health care fraud scheme for improperly performing lumbar spinal fusions, . According to the complaint, Sabit operates the Michigan Brain and Spine Physicians group in Southfield. The complaint alleges Sabit purportedly performed lumbar spinal fusion surgeries, which normally entails placing a medical device in a patient’s spinal column. In fact, Dr. Sabit would place no medical device in the patient’s spinal column, while billing the patient’s insurer, leading the patient to believe that the surgery had been performed correctly. When their pain continued, patients sought second opinions and were told that no medical devices had been implanted. The complaint further alleges that Sabit failed to disclose his involvement in health care fraud when he obtained citizenship in the United States. Before his naturalization as a U.S. citizen on May 10, 2013, Sabit failed to disclose that he had knowingly committed health care fraud, an aggravated felony, making him statutorily ineligible for naturalization.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:34:48 +0000
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