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# Gravesend Psychiatrist Mikhail Presman Sentenced To 18 Months For Medicare Fraud
- URL: https://bklyner.com/gravesend-psychiatrist-mikhail-presman-sentenced-to-18-months-for-medicare-fraud-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2014-03-25T19:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2014-03-25T19:00:40.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: 29 van sicklen st, Loretta Lynch, medicaid fraud, medicare fraud, mikhail presman, veterans, #API-Imported

![Authorities executed a search warrant at 29 Van Sicklen Street yesterday, which is listed as Mikhail Presman's medical office. They discovered it was actually his residence. (Source: Google Maps)](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/29vansicklen-580x445.jpg)

The residence of Mikhail Presman (Source: Google Maps)

He was facing 10 years, but, ultimately, Gravesend-based psychiatrist Mikhail Presman was sentenced earlier this month to 18 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release for Medicare fraud.

[Presman was busted in a massive Medicare fraud sweep in May 2013](/gravesend-psychiatrist-mikhail-presman-nabbed-in-nationwide-medicare-fraud-bust/) that netted 89 individuals accused of plundering the government insurance program out of $223 million. Bensonhurst Bean was first to report on a raid of his 29 Van Sicklen Street residence, pictured above.

A former employee of the Brooklyn Veteran’s Administration hospital, Presman ran a scheme from 2006 to 2013\. He claimed to be treating a multitude of patients, racking up over a $4 million in Medicare bills while also pulling a full-time salary at the VA. But, evidence showed, most of the appointments never existed. During a part of the stretch when he was claiming patients, he was actually taking a vacation with his family in China. He also claimed home visits to 55 Medicare beneficiaries who were hospitalized on the dates of the purported visits.

[He pleaded guilty in October 2013](/psychiatrist-facing-10-years-for-role-in-medicare-fraud-scheme/), and [sentenced on March 13](http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/March14/2014Mar13c.php?ref=bklyner.com).

In addition to the 18 month sentence and three years of supervision, he was ordered to pay back $1.2 million to the government.