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Home  Random Extras Doctor sentenced for 'sub-dosing' AIDS patients
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Doctor sentenced for 'sub-dosing' AIDS patients |
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Written by Zamna Avila
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
Dr. George Steven Kooshian was sentenced to 15 months in prison by a U.S. District Court, Feb. 22, for giving HIV-AIDS patients diluted medications.
Kooshian, who pleaded guilty to federal health care fraud, admitted to administering medicine doses that were less than prescribed to patients.
The 59-year-old La Quinta resident also was ordered to pay about $660,000 in restitution to 18 insurance companies for 21 patients who were sub-dosed.
Kooshian operated Valley View Internal Medicine Group in Garden Grove and Ocean View Internal Medicine Group in Laguna Beach and Long Beach.
The man pleaded guilty a year ago to two counts of health care fraud and two counts of making false statements relating to health care matters, admitting that he and his assistant improperly billed patients' health insurance companies for medications used to treat problems relating to AIDS, HIV and hepatitis.
The medications included Epogen, which is used to treat anemia; Interferon, which is used to treat Kaposi's sarcoma; and Immunogammaglobulin, which is used to treat peripheral neuropathy or numbness of the extremities.
The false billings in this case included bills submitted for a full dose of the medication when patients were sub-dosed - sometimes with the patients only receiving saline solution. The doctor even continued to bill for administering the medications when patients were no longer taking them.
He also billed the insurance companies, as if medical personnel administered the medications in the office when, in reality, the patients self-injected at home.
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