u00a0US Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma Sanford Coats said in a statement. Bhandary has also been ordered to pay restitution to Medicare and forfeit some property.

A case was filed against him in May this year alleging that Bhandary engaged in healthcare fraud in 2008 by submitting false claims to Medicare for services that he had not provided. Bhandary, a psychiatrist, was licensed to practice medicine in Oklahoma.