United States Reaches $501,556 Civil Settlement Resolving Allegations of False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs
Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Attorney's Office, Missouri, Eastern. Published July 22, 2025.
From Jan. 1, 2019, through May 31, 2024, a psychiatrist falsely indicated to Medicare and Missouri Medicaid that he provided face-to-face psychotherapy to patients, including submitting claims for payment when he was out of town and for services provided by other practitioners.
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1PSYCH CARE CONSULTANTS LLCSaint Louis, MO$01MOHD MALIKSaint Louis, MO$16KST. LOUIS to Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Drake on Tuesday announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and a Missouri psychiatrist have reached a $501,556 civil settlement that will resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations. The settlement resolves allegations that from Jan. 1, 2019, through May 31, 2024, Dr. Mohd Azfar Malik falsely indicated to both Medicare and Missouri Medicaid that he provided face-to-face psychotherapy to patients, including by submitting false claims for payment when he was out of town and for services that were provided by other practitioners. Dr. Malik was part-owner of Behavioral Health Services, LLC which owned and operated Psych Care Consultants in St. Louis, Missouri.
The settlement consists of $250,778 in restitution, which is doubled under the FCA.
The civil settlement contains no admission of liability. In April of 2025, Dr. Malik pleaded guilty to making false statement in federal health care related matters and admitted submitting claims for payment to Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurers in which he falsely claimed to have performed in-person services when he was out of Missouri or out of the country. He is scheduled to be sentenced on August 11. “Holding health care professionals accountable for submitting false claims for financial gain is crucial for maintaining public trust and ensuring that critical resources are appropriately utilized,” said Linda T. Hanley, Special Agent in Charge with the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). “HHS-OIG, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and our law enforcement partners will continue to collaborate our efforts to protect the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
This civil settlement was a result of the combined work of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, HHS/OIG Office of Investigations, the Missouri Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.