Between 2007 and 2013, Burman owned and operated six medical clinics in Brooklyn (the “Clinics”) that fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid approximately $30 million for medical services and supplies that were not provided, provided without regard to medical necessity or otherwise fraudulently billed.
Under New York State law, medical clinics must be owned and operated by a medical professional. Burman has never been a physician.
To circumvent this requirement, Burman hired doctors to pose as the designated owners of each of the clinics. Vaid was one such doctor. He agreed to sign a variety of fraudulent documents that falsely represented to banks, Medicare, Medicaid and others that he was the sole owner of Ocean Side Medical of Brooklyn, P.C.; one of the six clinics.
Vaid and his co-conspirators also helped prepare false medical records to support fraudulent reimbursement claims provided to Medicare and Medicaid. Vaid signed medical charts falsely stating that he had examined patients and wrote prescriptions and referrals for medically unnecessary and/or non-existent tests and supplies.
