A settlement has been reached to resolve False Claims Act allegations against Rakesh Nathu, a Las Vegas physician, who is accused of submitting false claims to federal health care programs for various radiation oncology services.
The government alleges that Nathu submitted improper claims to Medicare, TRICARE and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan from 2007 through 2009 in which he double billed for several procedures affiliated with radiation treatment plans, billed for certain high reimbursement radiation oncology services when a different, less expensive service should have been billed and billed for medically unnecessary radiation oncology services. One of these treatments included intensity modulated radiation therapy. Intensity modulated radiation therapy is a sophisticated radiation treatment indicated for specific types of cancer where extreme precision is required to spare surrounding organs or healthy tissue.
