The United States has filed and simultaneously settled a civil fraud lawsuit against Orange Medical Care, PC and its owners, Ashikkumar A. Raval and Manish A. Raval (together, the “Ravals” and with Orange Medical, the “Defendants”). The Ravals are physicians who own and operate Orange Medical, a family medicine practice that provides primary care services to patients in Newburgh, New York. The settlement resolves claims that Orange Medical and the Ravals fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid by submitting claims for primary care services that were not rendered or supervised by the physician identified in the claim for payment and had, in fact, been rendered by non-credentialed providers. Under the settlement, Orange Medical and the Ravals will pay $268,800 to the US and have admitted and accepted responsibility for conduct alleged in the Complaint. Orange Medical and the Ravals have also agreed to pay $331,200 to the State of New York to resolve the State of New York’s claims, for a total recovery of $600,000. The parties have also executed a Consent Judgment in the amount of $1,646,835, which may be enforced if the Defendants do not make the payments required under the settlement agreement.
