Last April, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of Dr. Ameet Vohra and his companies for fraudulently billing debridement services. On Friday, November 21st, 2025, the DOJ announced that Vohra Wound Physicians and its owner have agreed pay $45M to settle the fraud allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing the submission of claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary surgical procedures, for more lucrative surgical procedures when only routine non-surgical wound management had been done, and for evaluation and management services that were not billable under Medicare coverage and coding rules. In its complaint, the United States alleged that Vohra pressured, trained, and provided financial incentives for Vohra physicians to perform debridement procedures during as many patient visits as possible regardless of the patients’ needs.
The complaint also alleged that Vohra programmed its electronic health record (EHR) and billing software to ensure that Medicare was always billed for the higher-reimbursed surgical excisional procedure and to create false medical record documentation to support the scheme. The DOJ announcement included extremely strong language around manipulating EHRs to inflate billing. Under the settlement, Vohra will enter into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services which is described in the press release.
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