Neurologist Charged with Accepting Kickbacks

A state grand jury has indicted a Harbor Township, New Jersey, neurologist on charges that he accepted kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals worth several thousand dollars from six magnetic resonance-imaging facilities operated by a South Jersey medical imaging center services company. Acting New Jersey Attorney General John J. Hoffman said in a news release that Dr. Syed Jaffery, 54, part-owner of Premier Neurology and Mask Realities Corp., was charged with second-degree health care claims fraud, second-degree commercial bribery, second-degree financial facilitation of criminal ac...