April 21st, 2016

"A Florida cardiologist who was among the highest-billing doctors in the Medicare program in recent years—and the target of a civil lawsuit by the Justice Department last year—filed for bankruptcy protection, court records show.

Medicare paid Asad Qamar, the Ocala, Fla., cardiologist $16 million in 2013 and $18.3 million in 2012, according to billing records released by the federal Medicare agency after a legal effort by The Wall Street Journal, placing him among the top handful of medical providers by payments in each of those years." View South Florida Business Journal Article