Pair of Doctors Plead Guilty to Work Comp Fraud in Ohio

A pair of Illinois brothers who traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to practice psychiatry were sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation showed they were conducting inadequate examinations of injured workers and submitting false bills to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC), the BWC reported. Muhammed S. Choudhry, M.D., owner and practitioner at Nehal Psychiatric Group, located at 1100 Morse Rd. in Columbus, pleaded no contest to a felony charge in a Franklin County courtroom. His brother, Naseem M. Chaudhry, M.D, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor.