Illinois Physician Charged with Over $1M Medicaid and Medicare Fraud

Dr. Mohammad Khamis, a physician in River Forest, Illinois, has been charged with stealing over $1 million in payments from Medicaid and Medicare by submitting claims for prescriptions and medical services he did not personally render. Despite operating multiple medical practices and pharmacies in Chicago, Dr. Khamis was out of the country and the services were actually performed by an unlicensed student from his non-certified medical school in Bosnia. The charges against Dr. Khamis include theft, money laundering, managed healthcare fraud, vendor fraud, and forgery, highlighting ongoing concerns about fraudulent billing and compliance violations within the healthcare and insurance sectors.