VA: Jury Convicts Dr. Perwaiz of Scheme to Perform Unnecessary Surgeries
VA: Jury Convicts Dr. Javaid Perwaiz of Scheme to Perform Unnecessary Surgeries on Women
(STL.News) – A federal jury convicted a Chesapeake doctor today on 52 counts related to his scheme to bill private and governmental insurers millions of dollars for irreversible hysterectomies and other surgeries and procedures that were not medically necessary for his patients.
According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Dr. Javaid Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist who has practiced in Hampton Roads since the 1980s, executed a scheme to defraud health insurance programs between at least 2010 and 2019. During that period, Perwaiz billed private and governmental insurers millions of dollars for irreversible hysterectomies and other surgeries and procedures that were not medically n...