Doctor committed fraud, identity theft: Wisconsin DOJ
By FOX6 News Digital Team
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OAK CREEK, Wis. - A 52-year-old doctor from Oak Creek has been charged with identity theft and fraud, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul announced.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Farid Ahmad used a nurse s identity to prescribe medication and defrauded Medicaid by billing for unnecessary services and services he didn t provide.
A criminal complaint states Ahmad lost his certification to provide medical services to Medicaid patients in the summer of 2018. Afterward, in September 2018, he used a nurse’s National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI) – a unique numeric identifier that medical service providers must use when prescribing medicine – to prescribe medication to his Medicaid patients.
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