US doctor faces 465-years sentence, had performed unnecessary surgeries on his patients

A gynecologist in Virginia, US is facing a 465-years prison sentence after being found guilty of performing unnecessary surgeries on his patients, some of which were hysterectomies, since at least 2010.

He would conduct the unnecessary surgeries to defraud insurance companies for a scheme that lasted several years. He would bill insurance companies millions of dollars for the surgeries.

He also induced pregnant patients early to be reimbursed for deliveries, violated 30-day waiting periods for elective irreversible sterilizations, and billed insurance companies hundreds of thousands of dollars for procedures he didn't actually perform.

Perwaiz operated on 41.26% of patients over a 10-year period, about which an expert said that an average doctor performs surgeries on just 7.63% of patients.