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A New York doctor will be serving 13 years behind bars after being convicted of orchestrating a $7 million Medicare scheme. Brooklyn Federal Judge Dora Irizarry sentenced Dr. Syed Imran Ahmed, 51, to 13 years in federal prison and ordered him to pay more than $14 million in restitution, forfeiture, and fines to the federal government for billing Medicare $7 million for procedures he did not perform,

WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!! Imagine you drive your mother to the doctror's office to have her sugar diabetes checked and the clerk at the check-in desk tells her that her Medicare Part A and Part B no longer covers her. She had been disenrolled in Medicare. She cancelled her appointment and went straight to the Social Security Office, only to find out that it would probably take about a year to undo what had been done by Advantra Freedom. The Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance's Letter describes it best. Here's an excerpt: "1). The agent will actually claim to be from Medicare....