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A Delaware doctor who ordered medically unnecessary genetic cancer tests for 103 people she never examined has agreed to pay the federal government $180,000 to resolve claims that her illegal actions cost Medicare $565,000.
Dr. Shayasta S. Mufti’s alleged civil violations of the False Claims Act occurred during a seven-month period in 2019 and were outlined in the complaint filed in June by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.
Mufti has not been charged criminally, but the U.S. District Court complaint and the April settlement that included an “undisputed” statement of facts detail how she went afoul of the law by ordering tests that were “not reasonable and necessary, and not covered by Medicare,” court records show.
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