STL doctor sentenced for Medicaid, Medicare fraud

Dr. Sonny Saggar, a St. Louis physician, has been sentenced to 35 months in federal prison for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

Saggar also was ordered to repay $742,528 that was stolen from those programs.

Through his work at St. Louis General Hospital locations in St. Louis and Creve Coeur, Saggar, 57, allowed assistant physicians to treat patients and then billed Medicaid as if he had seen them personally. He also did not properly train assistant physicians, and he recruited other physicians to falsely claim they were overseeing the assistants, St. Louis Public Radio reports.

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