An Essex County doctor, Muhammad Mirza, has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for his involvement in a scheme to fraudulently bill Amtrak’s employee health care plan for unnecessary services. The doctor, along with other conspirators, conspired between April 2017 and June 2022 to submit false claims to Amtrak’s health insurance company. Prosecutors alleged that these services were either never provided or were medically unnecessary.
Mirza and his co-conspirators paid Amtrak employees to use their health insurance billing information to submit fraudulent claims. As a result, Amtrak lost over $1.3 million due to the fraudulent scheme. Mirza operated medical offices in several states, including New Jersey and New York.
In addition to his prison sentence, Mirza was ordered to pay $1.37 million in restitution and serve two years of supervised release. An attorney for Mirza did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sentence. An Amtrak spokesperson referred questions to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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