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More than 36,000 chiropractors were paid nearly $500 million by the federal government in 2012, making chiropractors one of the largest groups of Medicare providers. And one chiropractor in Brooklyn topped the list, receiving more than $1 million that year alone.
Alexander Khavash, who works in Brooklyn out of a rented office, received nearly twice the Medicare payments than any other practitioner in his field, according to data released this month by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Overall, chiropractors provided 21 million taxpayer-funded treatments for 2.5 million beneficiaries, the Medicare data show. But just 600 chiropractors, including Khavash, accounted for more than 10% of the Medicare payments.
Khavash was the only chiropractor in the top 1% of all individual practitioners paid by Medicare in 2012. According to the Medicare data, he performed more than 42,000 procedures on more than 2,500 patients.
Early last week, Khavash denied doing that many procedures and refused to comment about the $1 million. Then, in an interview at his office Saturday, he said he had eight chiropractors working for him and using his identification number in 2012. He declined to provide the chiropractors' names, but said Medicare is aware of them. He said they work at different locations than he did in 2012.
He now works out of a Brooklyn physical therapy practice and says he has four chiropractors working for him out of other locations. "I go by the book," Khavash said. "I earned my license. It took me a long time to earn it. I'm not about to mess it up by playing games with Medicare, or any insurance for that matter."

 

 

 

 

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