The doctor’s sentencing is scheduled for February 2024.
A jury on Wednesday convicted a Bay Area doctor of healthcare fraud, as well as accepting kickbacks for patient referrals, authorities said.Crime and Public Safety |San Jose man charged with driving to East Bay to meet undercover cop who posed as 13-year-old girl online
According to Colthurst, Watson referred patients he visited in retirement homes under sham circumstances to expensive and unneeded home health services that were billed to Medicare. Evidence at trial proved that in the first kickback, Amity Home Health Care and its CEO, Amanda Singh, conspired with Watson to pay him $3,000 a month to refer Medicare patients to Amity, Colthurst said. Singh pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to pay kickbacks for the referrals on Aug. 5, 2022, according to court records.
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