Former Delaware Physician

WILMINGTON, Del. – Dr. Shayasta S. Mufti, a physician and former resident of Newark, Delaware, has agreed to pay $180,000 to resolve allegations that she violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently ordering medically unnecessary genetic testing for over 100 Medicare beneficiaries. According to the United States, between April 2019 and November 2019, Dr. Mufti ordered medically unnecessary genetic tests for more than 100 Medicare patients. The United States alleges that Dr. Mufti had no established physician‑patient relationship with these patients, did not examine them, did not review or discuss the test results, and did not use the results to inform any course of treatment for any of the patients. In many instances, the orders were based solely on brief telemedicine consultations—and so