Rockaway couple get prison terms for $4.8 million scam on Medicare and private insurance companies

Two Rockaway residents were each sentenced Tuesday to more than six years in prison for receiving more than $4.8 million from Medicare and private insurance companies for diagnostic testing and reports that were never interpreted by a licensed physician.

Kirtish N. Patel, 54, and Nita K. Patel, 53, were sentenced to 100 and 78 months in prison, respectively. Both defendants previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls to separate informations charging them each with one count of health care fraud. Judge Walls imposed the sentences today in in Newark federal court.

According to the documents filed in the case and statements made in court and provided by U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman:

From 2006 through June 2014, Kirtish and Nita Patel owned and operated Biosound Medical Services Inc. and Heart Solutions, out of Parsippany. The companies provided mobile diagnostic testing, including ultrasounds, echocardiograms and nerve conduction studies that were used to diagnose heart defects, blood clots, abdominal aortic aneurysms and other serious medical conditions.

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