A $300 foot rub! That’s what three Brooklyn podiatrists charged the government over and over in a half-million-dollar scheme to defraud Medicare, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
Investigators yesterday arrested the foot doctors — as well as a Nassau County pharmacist who submitted $100,000 in phony invoices.
Drs. Vadim Nekritin, Zhanna Glikman and Igor Loshakov, who operated out of clinics in Gravesend and Coney Island, allegedly submitted Medicare claims over the past five years for chemical cauterization — a $300 treatment to help heal open wounds.
But according to the feds, the patients only had their toenails cleaned, trimmed and rubbed with lotion.
FBI agents yesterday carted off records and computers related to the alleged fraud.
The pharmacist, James Ehrlein, is the owner and president of Jayson Drugs in Franklin Square.