A Lexington doctor has surrendered his license after being sentenced to prison in connection with writing medical orders that resulted in $14 million in fraudulent billing.
Dr. Amr Mohamed agreed to give up his license in lieu of having it revoked, the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure said in an order released Monday.
Mohamed, who specialized in diseases of the kidneys, worked at the University of Kentucky before he was indicted in federal court in March 2023 on a charge that he wrote orders for products and tests that were not medically necessary.
The charge arose from his work for RediDoc L.L.C., a purported telemedicine provider.
Federal authorities said the products and tests Mohamed ordered for Medicare beneficiaries were not necessary because they were not used for treatment and he didn’t have a legitimate doctor-patient relationship with the people.
His plea agreement cited an example in which a woman in Kentucky told a telemarketer she didn’t want free medical braces, but Mohamed ordered them for her anyway.
The braces involved in the fraud included wrist, knee and ankle braces, according to the court record.
Mohamed received $261,054 from RediDoc between March 2018 and April 2019 for writing orders for more than 7,000 people, but the business fraudulently billed Medicare $14.1 million for those tests and products, according to his plea agreement.
Mohamed repaid the $261,054.
U.S. District Judge Karen K. Caldwell sentenced him to two years in prison and in May and ordered him to pay $14.1 million to Medicare.
He is liable for that restitution with the owners of RediDoc, Stephen Luke and David C. Laughlin Jr., who admitted taking part in more than $64 million in fraudulent billing to Medicare and TRICARE, an insurance program for members of the military.
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