Clearwater Doctor Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud

Dr. Jayam Krishna Iyer of Clearwater accepted a plea agreement that will end her medical career. Iyer’s charges include defrauding Medicare by billing for treatments she never delivered and giving written prescriptions for Schedule II narcotics to relatives of patients who never actually stepped foot into her offices.

Iyer’s controversial past includes being sued for malpractice in civil court. She has also been named in death investigations involving narcotics including dilaudid, morphine, oxycodone and fentanyl that she prescribed between 2003 and 2017 in Pinellas County.

Iyer will have to pay $51,000 in restitution for Medicare fraud in addition to giving up her medical career. She was facing up to 10 years in prison and as much as $250,000 in fines, will get a reduced sentence in exchange for her guilty plea.

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