A Wilmington, Delaware man and former D.C. doctor was convicted Friday on 11 counts of healthcare fraud, having wrongly charged Medicare hundreds of thousands for joint and nerve remedy.
Frederick Gooding, 71, first labored as a medical practitioner in Delaware from 1996 to 2013; he obtained a concurrent license to function in Washington, D.C. in 2012.
In 2010, the Delaware medical board sanctioned Gooding. It suspended his license for six months with two years probation for performing medication injections to deal with neck ache with out using medical imaging gear.
Gooding was additionally prohibited from administering stated neck injections.
In July 2012, Gooding renewed his D.C. license with the proviso that he couldn’t carry out neck injection procedures. In February 2014, these restrictions had been lifted.
From January 2015 to August 2018, Gooding raked in probably the most Medicare reimbursement cash for 5 associated injection and nerve destruction procedures meant to deal with joint and again ache, as in comparison with all different suppliers in D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, in line with his indictment.
A number of procedures Gooding purported to supply required medical imaging gear that he didn’t possess — however Gooding filed claims for reimbursement anyway.
Paperwork had been falsified to make it seem that the procedures had been carried out as described within the billing.
Different procedures Gooding sought cash for included medication injections into sufferers’ spines and the elimination of fluid from sufferers’ joints, neither of which had been medically crucial.
Gooding would invoice Medicare $12.7 million from January 2015 to August 2018, receiving $3.6 million from these claims.
Gooding is due for sentencing on June 26 and faces as much as 10 years in jail on every of his 11 counts of healthcare fraud, in line with the Justice Division.
