Dr. Saroj Kumar K. Parida
A Manheim Township physician has been sentenced to federal prison for fraud.
Dr. Saroj Kumar K. Parida, 50, was sentenced Tuesday in Harrisburg by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 8 years in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release. He also was ordered to pay $7.1 million in restitution.
Earlier this year, Parida, a neonatologist, pleaded guilty to one count each of health care fraud and mail fraud.
Parida, of 760 Goose Neck Drive, Lititz, was charged in 2009 with submitting millions of dollars in fraudulent medical bills to 23 different health care benefit programs, including Medicaid, between June 2003 and March 2009, according to U.S. Attorney Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
He was charged with health care and mail fraud in Lancaster and Cumberland counties, as well as in South Carolina.
Prior to sentencing, Parida had paid back $959,000 of the $7,116,423 in restitution he owed.
In addition, because the case was resolved in cooperation with federal authorities, investigators seized $5,783,000 that Parida had in investments in Boston. This amount will be applied to the restitution Parida must pay, authorities said.
The restitution will be returned to state Medicaid programs and insurance companies that were defrauded by Parida's false billings.
A neonatologist is a pediatric specialist trained to deal with medical problems of newborns.
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