A Rajkot-based doctor was fined ₹6.54 crore by the state health commissioner’s department for a scam concerning fraudulent documentation on the Ayushman portal.

Dr Hiren Mashru of Nihit Baby Care Hospital, located at Laxminagar Main Road, Rajkot, stands accused of involvement in filing fake medical reports to claim money under the PMJAY scheme (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana), a government health insurance scheme in India. 

Dr Mashru allegedly filed fake reports for 116 patients and claimed more than ₹65,47,950 (₹65.47 lakh). The Nihit Baby Care Hospital has been suspended from the PMJAY after this.

The state also directed to give refunds to all the 116 patients of PMJAY as he applied 10% more amount of the treatment for them.

Mashru is also accused of working with laboratories to fabricate reports, and misrepresenting healthy children as sick.

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