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Former Tri County Wellness Group CEO sentenced to 15 years in barbaric Medicare fraud scheme

Credit Hennie Stander / unsplash Mashiyat Rashid, the man who orchestrated a nightmarish Medicare fraud scheme in Michigan and Ohio, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.  The scheme involved coercing patients at Tri County Wellness Group s clinics to submit to medically unnecessary and sometimes horribly painful back injections in order to get prescriptions for opioids.  Some of the patients were genuinely suffering from pain, and some were addicts. According to testimony at Rashid s trial, some of the patients could be heard screaming during the procedures, which were described by a former Tri County employee as barbaric, and some suffered injuries, including open holes in their backs.

Pain clinic CEO sentenced to 15 years in prison for role in $150M fraud, opioid distribution scheme

Mar 5, 2021 11:58am The CEO of a group of pain clinics was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a $150 million fraud scheme. (Getty Images/alfexe) The CEO of a Michigan- and Ohio-based group of pain clinics and other providers was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a $150 million fraud and opioid distribution scheme. Mashiyat Rashid, 40, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was also ordered to pay more than $51 million in restitution to Medicare and to forfeit property traceable to scheme to the U.S., which includes $11.5 million in real estate and a Detroit Pistons season ticket membership.

West Bloomfield CEO sentenced in $150 million health care fraud, opioid, money laundering scheme

West Bloomfield CEO sentenced in $150 million health care fraud, opioid, money laundering scheme Crain s Detroit Business Print The chief executive officer of a Michigan- and Ohio-based group of pain clinics and other medical providers was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for his role in a $150 million health care fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Mashiyat Rashid, 40, of West Bloomfield, was the CEO of the Tri-County Wellness Group of medical providers in Michigan and Ohio. He was charged with developing and approving a corporate policy to administer unnecessary injections to patients in exchange for prescriptions of more than 6.6 million doses of medically unnecessary opioids.

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