BATON ROUGE, La. 鈥� Baton Rouge Paramedic Samrat Mukherjee pleaded guilty to falsely posing as a doctor to call in prescriptions. He faces up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and fines of up to $250,000.
The said Mukherjee admitted to posing as a licensed doctor, forging a medical degree and residency letter, and even celebrating a fake medical school graduation while employed as a licensed paramedic by Acadian Ambulance.
The DOJ said Mukherjee gained physician access at multiple hospitals, saw ICU patients, and wore 鈥淢.D.鈥� and 鈥淔light Surgeon鈥� insignia while using badges identifying him as a doctor.
From May 2019 to November 2022, Mukherjee posed as two doctors, calling in prescriptions that led pharmacies to bill insurers, including Medicaid. In one case, he forged a doctor鈥檚 signature to prescribe medication for a cancer patient.
