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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni
announced that a Monmouth County pain management
doctor has pleaded guilty to fraudulently
billing Medicare and private health insurance
companies for more expensive medical procedures
than were actually administered to his patients.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Frederic Feit, 59, of Manalapan,
pleaded guilty Wednesday, Dec. 24, before
Superior Court Judge Ronald Lee Reisner
in Monmouth County to third-degree theft
by deception. The charge was contained in
a Sept. 27, 2006 state grand jury indictment.
Feit,
a physician licensed in the State of New
Jersey, owned and operated Modern Pain Therapy,
located at 42 Center Street in Freehold.
In the plea hearing, Feit admitted that
between December 1996 and March 2004, he
knowingly submitted false claims to the
Medicare program, Aetna Insurance Company
and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield. The
claims were false in that Feit billed for
nerve block injections used to alleviate
pain but, in reality, simply administered
less costly and less invasive intramuscular
injections.
Feit
is scheduled to appear before Judge Reisner
on March 6 to be sentenced. As part of the
plea agreement, Feit must pay more than
$500,000 in restitution to the Medicare
program and the private health insurance
companies.
Detective
Patricia Yellen, Analyst James Reilly, Assistant
Attorney General John Krayniak and Deputy
Attorney General Lisa Sarnoff Gochman were
assigned to the investigation. Krayniak
and Gochman represented the Office of Insurance
Fraud Prosecutor at the guilty plea hearing.
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