Wisconsin substance center owes $2m in Medicaid fraud case

MILWAUKEE – A federal choose has dominated {that a} now-shuttered Wisconsin substance abuse middle and its CEO owe the state and federal authorities greater than $2 million in a Medicaid fraud case.

On-line courtroom information present U.S. District Decide J.P. Stadtmueller dominated Tuesday that Brookfield-based The Therapeutic Middle LLC and its CEO and lone practitioner, Dr. Siamak Arassi, are accountable for $2.3 million.

The U.S. Division of Justice sued the middle and Arassi in 2019. The lawsuit alleged Arassi ordered prescriptions for Vivitrol, an anti-addiction drug, within the names of former sufferers and billed Medicaid for reimbursements, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday. He stockpiled the drugs and offered it to sufferers for greater than $1,000 a month, the newspaper reported.

Arassi mentioned in an announcement posted on his web site that he closed the clinic as a result of he was tried of being harassed by “vindictive” regulators, together with the Justice Division and the Wisconsin Medical Inspecting Board.

“Disgrace on them for treating me so badly,” he wrote.