New Jersey doctor Muhammad Mirza was sentenced to 26 months in prison for his involvement in a scheme to fraudulently bill Amtrak’s employee health care plan for unnecessary services. Between April 2017 and June 2022, Mirza and other conspirators conspired to submit false claims to Amtrak’s health insurance company, claiming that these services were either never provided or were medically unnecessary.
Mirza operated medical offices in several states, including New Jersey and New York, and 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. 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.