Indian-origin doctor Neil K Anand who was convicted for US health care fraud earlier this year has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for pushing his patients to accept goody bags of sedatives that they did not need so that he could get insurance money. The 48-year-old Pennsylvania doctor was also ordered to pay over $2 million in restitution and over $2 million in forfeiture. Layers of irregularities were uncovered in the investigation as apart from forcing patients to take medicines that they did not need, he pre-signed prescriptions where his interns, with no license to prescribe medicines, wrote controlled substances. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Dr Anand conspired to submit false and fraudulent claims to health plans provided by Medicare, the

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