CLEVELAND, USA — A Guyana-born cardiologist was sentenced to 20 years in prison on December 18, 2015, for performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers by $29 million, US law enforcement officials said. Dr Harold Persaud, 56, was […]\r\nSource: Dutch Caribbean News Guyana-born cardiologist sentenced to 20 years in US prison for overbilling Medicare\r\n"
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