An Aventura doctor accused of bad penile and breast injections and a $1.3 million fraud
Before Florida’s Board of Medicine could decide what to do about Aventura Dr. Muhammad Mirza after New Jersey suspended his license for questionable penile, eye and breast injections, he made it easy.
Mirza surrendered his Florida license — after being sentenced to federal prison.
Mirza is a restricted resident at FCI Otisville in New York after being sentenced in May to two years and two months prison time and $1.37 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. On June 18, Mirza voluntarily surrendered the Florida license he had held since Oct. 15, 2015.
Online Florida records say Mirza, who listed an office in a commercial building at 20200 W. Dixie Hwy. as his Florida license address, settled a $150,000 liability claim in another, unnamed state in May 2021.
A few months later, New Jersey suspended Mirza’s license.
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Penis shots
Following “numerous consumer complaints,” an inspection of a Mirza office and hearing testimony from the doctor, the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners filed an Interim Consent Order suspending Mirza’s license on Oct. 13, 2021.
“It is alleged that [Mirza’s] practice of Aesthetic Medicine grossly deviates from accepted standards of medical care and that he, therefore, poses, a clear and imminent danger to the public.
“These practices include, but are not limited to, alleged improper use of certain dermal fillers ‘off label’ for the performance of: penile injections, which caused actual and permanent harm to a patient; injections around patients’ eyes, which, if done incorrectly, can lead to permanent blindness; and, injections of filler in patients’ breasts, which can obfuscate patients’ mammogram results.”
Also, the consent order said, when an emergency room doctor called Mirza about a patient suffering after a penile injection, Mirza “omitted key treatment information that he knew, or should have known, which complicated this patient’s post-procedure emergency care.”
The order said Mirza “denies the allegations ... and intends to file a formal answer denying same...”
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The healthcare fraud Amtrak train
Mirza and some cronies decided in April 2017 to target the Amtrak healthcare plan with a classic healtcare fraud scheme.
As described by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, “Mirza and his conspirators agreed to engage in a scheme to bill the Amtrak healthcare plan for fraudulent claims for services that either were never provided or were medically unnecessary.”
They got Amtrak employees on board so they could use their patient and insurance information for the claims.
A medical provider called “CC-i” in the criminal complaint worked in New York and Jersey City, New Jersey offices run by Mirza.
The criminal complaint says in March 2022, Mirza and CC-i talked about setting up a corporation to keep the healthcare fraud rolling.
“Mirza stated that “the safest way to do it” was for Mirza to use his Florida medical license, “open up a company with a Florida addresses [which] we can buy, and mail can come through Delaware for [Biller-1, who handled billing for Mirza],” and “we will not use the New York address, to prevent any issues,” the criminal complaint said.
The end of the line for the scam came with the June 13, 2022, criminal complaint filing against Mirza and several others.
