Warren Man Sentenced for Medical Fraud

Yousuf Masood, 47, of Warren, was sentenced to 43 months in prison for operating a medical fraud scheme using employees paid as little as $10 per hour to pose as doctors, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. 

He was also ordered to pay more than $1.8 million in restitution and forfeiture for fraudulent Medicaid and Medicare billings. Masood’s wife, Maruk Masood, 43, also of Warren and the office manager of their Elizabeth-based practice, was sentenced today to five years of probation, to include one year of home confinement.

The sentencing follows guilty pleas the couple entered in April to the charges.

Three others were sentenced for the scheme in which prosecutors said more than 20,000 people were treated by the unqualified employees. Two of the individuals who posed as licensed physicians – Hamid Bhatti, 34, of Rahway, N.J. and Carlos Quijada, 31, of Hawthorne, N.J. – were each sentenced today to five years of probation.