According to the report, from Dec. 2002 through May 2005, Dr. Akhigbe made the fraudulent claims to D.C. Medicaid. For example, prosecutors alleged that Dr. Akhigbe billed for seeing 86 patients and performing surgery on Thanksgiving Day 2003 and Memorial Day 2004. Investigators were not able to locate any patients treated on those occasions.
Dr. Akhigbe will be sentenced on March 19.
Read the Post’s report on Dr. Ehigiator Akhigbe.
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