A former D.C. doctor was convicted by a federal jury Friday of 11 counts of falsely charged health care fraud Medicare millions of dollars to treat joints and nerves.
Frederick Gooding71, of Wilmington, Delaware, first served as a physician in Delaware from 1996 to 2013. In 2012, he received a concurrent license to practice in the District of Columbia.
In 2010, the Delaware State Medical Board authorized it Gooding. He suspended his license for six months with two years of probation for performing medical injections to treat neck pain without the use of medical imaging equipment.
Gooding injections in the neck were also prohibited.
In July 2012 Gooding reinstated his DC license with the understanding that he could not perform neck injection procedures. In February 2014, these restrictions were lifted.
From January 2015 to August 2018. Gooding grabbed more Medicare reimbursed money for five injections and nerve destruction procedures designed to treat joint and back pain than all other providers in D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, according to the federal indictment.
Several procedures that Gooding claimed provided the necessary medical imaging equipment that he did not have, but Gooding in any case, claims for compensation were filed, the Ministry of Justice reports.
The documents were falsified to give the impression that the procedures were performed as described in the invoice.
Other procedures Gooding sought reimbursement for were injecting drugs into patients’ spines and removing fluid from patients’ joints, none of which were medically necessary.
Gooding put up the bill Medicare $12.7 million from January 2015 to August 2018, receiving $3.6 million from those claims, according to the filings.
Gooding is scheduled to be sentenced on June 26 and faces up to 10 years in prison on each of the 11 counts of health care fraud, according to the Department of Justice.
