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'''Raj Bothra''' is an American surgeon, humanitarian and politician of Indian origin.<ref name="Dr. Raj Bothra awarded Padma Shri">{{cite web | url=https://www.indianembassy.org/archives_details.php?nid=328 | title=Dr. Raj Bothra awarded Padma Shri | publisher=Embassy of India, Washington D C | date=29 January 1999 | access-date=October 31, 2015}}</ref> He is a former Chief of Surgery at the Holy Cross Hospital, Detroit and practices [[interventional pain management]] at the Pain Centre USA, [[Warren, Michigan|Warren]].<ref name="Our staff">{{cite web | url=http://www.thepaincenterusa.com/our-staff.html | title=Our staff | publisher=Pain Center USA | date=2015 | access-date=October 31, 2015}}</ref> He is a Fellow of the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians (ABIPP)<ref name="Our staff" /> and is associated with Indian health organizations in conducting lectures to raise awareness of [[HIV/AIDS]] and [[substance abuse]].<ref name="Dr. Raj Bothra awarded Padma Shri" /> He is politically aligned with the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and was appointed by [[George H. W. Bush]] as the co-chairman of the Asian-American Coalition for the [[1988 United States presidential election]].<ref name="Changing convention">{{cite web | url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/prosperous-indian-americans-switch-over-to-the-republicans/1/307632.html | title=Changing convention | publisher=India Today | date=15 September 1992 | access-date=October 31, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Raj Bothra, MD. From healer to presidential appointee, he is a man committed to numerous charitable causes">{{cite journal | title=Raj Bothra, MD. From healer to presidential appointee, he is a man committed to numerous charitable causes | author=Bouffard K. | journal=Mich. Med. | year=January 1996 | volume=95 | issue=1 | pages=38–39 | pmid=8820940}}</ref> He was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]], by the Government of India, in 1999.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref><br />
According to Detroit News, on Dec 6, 2018, Dr. Bothra was charged along with five other doctors, in an unsealed indictment, with cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of almost $500 million and fueling the nation's opioid epidemic by illegally prescribing more than 13 million doses of prescription pain medication.<br />
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The dollars and drugs involved make the alleged health care fraud conspiracy one of the largest in Michigan history, and one of the largest nationwide.<br />
The scheme was focused within three pain clinics in Macomb County. They are The Pain Center USA in Warren and Eastpointe, and Interventional Pain Center in Warren.<br />
The three clinics were owned and operated by Dr. Rajendra Bothra, 77, of Bloomfield Hills, a surgeon, humanitarian and politician. In 1999, Bothra was presented with the fourth highest civilian honor bestowed in India, known as the Padmashri.<br />
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Bothra was cited for humanitarian efforts in India, which included educating people about AIDS, the dangers of tobacco and alcohol, and fundraising efforts for medical equipment.<br />
Bothra's clinics "sought to bill insurance companies for the maximum number of services and procedures possible with no regard to the patients’ needs," prosecutors alleged.<br />
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In 2018, Dr Bothra was jailed for fuelling the nation's opioid epidemic, cheating Medicare and subjecting to needless, painful back injections. <ref name="Medical Dialogues">{{cite web | url=https://medicaldialogues.in/dr-rajendra-bothra-padmashri-doctor-healthcare-fraud-gets-bail-on-record-rs-50-crore-bond/ | title=US: Padmashri Doctor accused of Healthcare fraud, gets bail on record Rs 50 crore bond | publisher= Medical Dialogues | date=2019 | access-date=January 17, 2019}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Interventional pain management]]<br />
* [[1988 United States presidential election]]<br />
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