Glendale doctor charged with filing $45 million fraudulent Botox claims to Medicare
Violetta Mailyan advertised herself to be a “facial aesthetic doctor” and a board-certified physician who specializes in beauty.
By Helen Jeong, nbclosangeles
Botox Treatment, Woman, Center for esthetic medicine, Paris, Injecting botulinum toxin to fill in forehead wrinkles. (Photo By BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
A Glendale physician is accused of defrauding Medicare by deceitful claims for Botox injections and falsifying medical records, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
A federal grand jury has indicted Dr. Violetta Mailyan for submitting more than $45 million in fake Medicare claims although the Botox injections were not medically necessary or never provided, according to the DOJ.
For example, some of the injections were done on dates when Mailyan was traveling internationally or patients were not in the U.S., prosecutors alleged. In other cases, Mailyan filed claims for someone while the person was serving time in federal prison, the DOJ said.
Mailyan advertised herself to be a “facial aesthetic doctor” and a board-certified physician who specializes in beauty, according to her social media accounts.
Mailyan was charged with nine counts of wire fraud and three counts of obstructing a criminal investigation of health care offenses.
If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on each wire fraud count and five years in prison on each obstruction count.
