$5.3M To Be Paid By Fairfax Doctor For Unpaid Taxes, Fraud Scheme

FAIRFAX, VA — Dr. Jasser Thiara, owner and operator of Mid-Atlantic Ob-Gyn, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to underreporting his income and filing false tax returns related to his medical practice.

Thiara's efforts in "corruptly obstructing the IRS" also extended to the work he did at Fairfax Pain Clinic. He agreed to pay $3.1 million in taxes and $2.2 million to insurance companies, according to court documents.

Thiara admitted to filing false returns for Mid-Atlantic for the 2017 to 2020 tax years. By claiming bogus business deduction, he was able to fraudulently reduce his company's business income, according to court documents. He also filed false individual tax returns for the same reporting years and failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual gross receipts from the Fairfax Pain Clinic.

From 2014 through about 2016, Thiara also received kickback payments for prescriptions he referred to clinics owned by Mohamed Abdalla, according to court documents. He did this despite some of his Mid-Atlantic contracts prohibiting him from doing so. In some cases, Abdalla billed insurance companies for these prescriptions but failed to provide the prescribed medications to the patients in order to increase his profits.

As part of this prescription scheme with Abdalla, Thiara received about $2.2 million, which he did not report to the IRS or pay taxes on.

For the 2017 to 2017 tax years, Thiara also received payments for medical services billed out-of-network using a business called NTMT. This part of the scheme primarily impacted Aetna and United Healthcare, two insurance companies where Thiara was an in-network provider. Although he filed tax returns for NTMT, Thiara claimed that he'd received minimal to no business income instead of the millions he actually received from the insurance companies.

For the tax years 2015 to 2020, Thiara failed to pay the IRS a total of $3,172,001 in taxes. He used these funds to buy a $3.5 million residence and a $340,000 Ferrari. He also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on credit cards and other luxury items, according to court documents.

Thiara agreed to pay $3,172,001 in restitution to the IRS and $2,214,830 to third-party victims, according to court documents. He is scheduled to be sentenced on March 15, 2024, and faces a possible sentience of up to three years in prison. For his role in the kickback scheme, Adballa was sentenced on March 19, 2021 to four years in prison.