Norfolk – the Regional Medical Center Chesapik was appointed on Tuesday on charges of fraud and conspiracy resulting from years of operations and procedures performed by one of his former surgeons.
Will Newman, a New York lawyer, who represents the hospital, has not been guilty of both charges for his client. Newman also asked the court to determine the case for a trial. At the hearing, no medical center officials held at the US District Court in Norfolk appeared.
The hospital was charged earlier this month for numerous accusations of fraud and conspiracy associated with a former obstetrician and gynecologist who performs surgery, procedures and supplies to babies there for more than three decades.
The prosecution claims that the hospital staff have been repeatedly warned by employees that Dr. Jawaid Parviz performs unnecessary patients and fraudulent charges of insurance companies, but allowed him to continue due to the many millions of dollars he led to the facility.
In November 2020, a court hearing in the US District Court in Norfolk found Parviz guilty of all charges. He was sentenced to 59 years in prison.
Several women testified during the almost monthly process that they needed to undergo operations that later realized that they were not needed. Some testified that the doctor told them that they had cancer when they did not, and some did procedures that they did not agree.
The hospital’s indictment claims that the employees knew that Parviz’s privileges were terminated by another local hospital for unnecessary operations, and yet they continue to give them every two years, from 1984 to shortly before arrest In 2019, officials also knew that he had been guilty of charges of federal fraud and was tried several times by patients, the document said.
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