Word: pemphigoid
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Federal indictment unsealed in court on Thursday accuses Ahmed of correctly diagnosing patients with the Pemphigoid strain—and then falsifying their medical records to indicate that they had the rare Pemphigus, the treatment of which is covered by Medicare...
...treatment for Pemphigus uses intravenous immunoglobulin in place of steroids, the common treatment for Pemphigoid. Immunoglobulin is much gentler on patients, but it costs about $10,000 a month and has to be administered for up to a year...
...also petitioned Medicare to cover immunoglobulin treatment for Pemphigoid patients who failed to respond to steroid treatment or suffered serious side effects from that treatment...
...health care fraud charges stem from allegations that Ahmed mixed blood samples of patients who had the less lethal Pemphigoid strain with those who had the lethal Pemphigus, in order to obtain Medicare coverage for their treatment...
...When we had patients who were having trouble with Medicare...we sent them to Dr. Ahmed, and he seemed to have the ability to do it,” Sal Capo, president and executive director of the California-based Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Society, told the Boston Globe on Thursday...