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TRENTON - Attorney General
Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director
Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced that a Monmouth
County pain management doctor was sentenced
today for 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, was ordered by Superior
Court Judge Ronald Lee Reisner in Monmouth
County to serve five years probation and to
pay $578,978 in restitution to the Medicare
program and private health insurance companies.
He was also ordered to pay a $15,000 criminal
fine. The sentence was based on Feit’s
guilty plea to theft by deception, a charge
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 pleading guilty on
Dec. 24, 2008, 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.
The Board of Medical Examiners
will consider disciplinary action against
Feit following today’s sentencing.
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 sentencing.
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