WASHINGTON – A Detroit jury has convicted Troy, Mich., physician Toe Myint of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme.

Myint was a physician at Sacred Hope Center, a Southfield, Mich., clinic that appeared to specialize in providing infusion therapy to Medicare beneficiaries. Evidence in the trial established that Myint ordered medications for patients that he knew were not needed. Patients were paid kickbacks.

According to federal investigators, in the six months between September 2006 and March 2007, Myint and others caused approximately $4.2 million to be submitted to the Medicare program for services that were unnecessary and never provided.

The case was brought as part of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, supervised by the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Since its inception in March 2007, Strike Force operations in seven districts have obtained indictments of 508 individuals who collectively have falsely billed the Medicare program for more than $1 billion.