A California doctor who billed a whopping $35 million in hospice care to Medicare last year has had her billing license revoked. Dr. Fariba Javaherian is a registered dermatologist, but according to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) billing data obtained by The Post, she is associated with 63 hospice facilities across California either as a medical director, attending physician or in some other capacity. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) registered with Dr. Javaherian, a unique 10 digit number given to individual healthcare providers, was used for 1,662 unique patients across the 63 hospice agencies and appeared on more than 6,000 claims that billed $35,816,331. Following The Post’s extensive investigation, CMS revoked Javaherian’s license to bill Medicare. When asked for comment about Javaherian’s suspension to bill Medicare, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told The Post, “‘Do no harm’ was ignored, and in its place, was a practice of devastating damage disguis...
One day as Bijan and I sat next to each other in the prayer room, Karimi’s pants, specifically its brand, caught our eye causing us to once again erupt in uncontrollable laughter. Why one would produce pants under the ridiculous brand name of “mama” was beyond us but there we had it right in front of our eyes. We couldn’t wait to be dismissed so we could point it out to others and even Karimi himself. Much to our surprise no one else seemed to even acknowledge our observation and in response to our question of what brand pants Karimi was wearing, some responded, “Lois.” Fed up with the lack of desired reactions, I finally went up to Karimi and asked him what brand his pants were. While he probably did not know where I was heading with this line of questioning, he simply smiled and said, “They are Sadr brand.” Bijan and I followed him around a bit to determine why no one else could see what was so clear to us. It baffled us that not only everyone was reading the brand completely wrong...