Attorney General Frosh Announces $3.07 Million Settlement with Maryland Doctor for Submitting Improper Medicaid and Medicare Claims

BALTIMORE, MD – Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced that Zahid Aslam, M.D., a doctor who owned medical practices in Maryland and Delaware, will pay $3.07 million to resolve civil liability claims resulting from improperly billing the Maryland Medicaid Program, the Delaware Medicaid Program, and Medicare. The Maryland Medicaid Program’s share of the settlement is $1.269 million.

The settlement arose from an investigation into the billing practices of Fast Care, dba Got-A-Doc Walk-In Medical Centers, and Amna Medical Center, medical practices owned and controlled by Dr. Aslam with locations in Maryland and Delaware. The investigation resulted in allegations that Fast Care and Amna Medical Center submitted claims for services to government health care programs for laboratory services that were not medically necessary, did not qualify for payment, and/or were not provided; medical and/or counseling services that listed the wrong rendering provider and/or did not qualify for payment because they were not rendered by an eligible provider; and medical services that listed the wrong service performed and/or lacked documentation to support the claimed service.
“Submitting phony Medicaid claims is illegal and breaches the trust we place in medical professionals,” said Attorney General Frosh.

As part of the settlement, Dr. Aslam has also agreed to be excluded from Medicare, Medicaid, and all other federal health care programs. He has also agreed to surrender his medical licenses. Additionally, on November 30, 2018, in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, Dr. Aslam and Fast Care Medical Aid Unit, LLC pleaded guilty to Making a False Statement to a Financial Institution and Health Care Fraud, respectively. Dr. Aslam is scheduled to be sentenced on May 22, 2019.

Attorney General Frosh thanked the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for obtaining this result, working in conjunction with United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, the Maryland Department of Health, and the State of Delaware Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

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~ MD Attorney General’s Office