An Atlanta radiologist was sentenced to four and a half years of jail time and three years of post-release supervision for healthcare fraud related offenses.  Dr. Rajashahker Reddy’s company, Reddy Solutions Inc., was employed by multiple hospitals in the Southeast to provide evaluations of x-rays and scans performed at the hospitals.  Records produced at trial showed that although Dr. Reddy signed over 70,000 forms in eight months, an overwhelming majority of the reviews were performed by unqualified medical assistants.  When the government subpoenaed the access records for the radiology viewing system, Dr. Reddy instructed his employees to destroy the existing records and create new ones falsely showing the doctor as the individual who viewed the scans.  In addition to the jail time, Dr. Reddy was also fined $15,000 and will have to repay $919,000 in restitution.

Read the entire press release, “Atlanta Radiologist Sentenced to Prison”