Two Elizabethtown cancer doctors are being sued for allegedly extending chemotherapy treatments in order to make more money.
Six former patients and the estates representing two other patients are suing Doctors Yusef Deshmukh and Rafiq Rahman, accusing the two of diluting the drugs used to treat their cancers, so that the treatment period would be made longer. The Courier-Journal reports the alleged actions by the doctors between 2006 and 2014 allowed them to improperly bill Medicaid and other programs for reimbursements.
Deshmukh and Rahman are already under investigation by the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure related to the allegations.
The suit asks for unspecified damages and says the patients were made to unnecessarily retain catheters and ports inside their bodies.
The defendants have not yet filed a legal response to the suit. Meanwhile, the doctors accused in the suit are allowed to continue their practice, and their clinic remains open.
