Physical Therapist Receives 2-Year Prison Sentence For Falsely Billing Medicare

(October 15, 2020, 8:42 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A physical therapist who was convicted for his role in a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare and Medicaid for services he never rendered was sentenced Oct. 6 by a federal judge in New York to two years in prison and ordered to pay $5.7 million in restitution (United States v. Hatem Behiry, et al., No. 16-cr-763, S.D. N.Y.)....