A Greenwich doctor has agreed to reimburse Medicare more than $250,000 after it was claimed he billed them for services he did not provide to his patients.
Authorities claim that Dr. Jun Xu, owner of the Rehabilitation Medicine and Acupuncture Center at 1171 East Putnam Avenue, violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for one-on-one physical therapy services when he actually provided group therapy.
Deirdre Daly, the acting U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, claims Dr. Xu also submitted claims to Medicare for therapy services performed by massage therapists.
All this is said to have taken place from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2009.
Although Dr. Xu did not plead guilty to the allegations, he agreed to reimburse Medicare $300,000.
According to his website Dr. Xu graduated from New York Medical College in Rehabilitation Medicine and Guangzhou and Jiangxi Colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, with training in Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology, Tai Chi, Qi-Qong, and Tuina.
The site says he is the only physician in the state of Connecticut with three board certifications:
1. American Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
2. American Board Certified Acupuncturist
3. American Board Certified Chinese Herbology.
He is a Fellow Member of the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and he is the former Chief Resident at New York Medical College.
Xu is the author of, “Magic Needles: Live Longer and Feel Better with Acupuncture” and he has appeared on Good Morning America, and was written about in an article in the Greenwich Times.
Dr. Jun Xu also is the Clinical Assistant Professor at Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of New York Medical College, NY and Attending Physician at Stamford Hospital, CT.
