Clinic software
Vohra, a $45 million EMR, and surgical debridement
The Justice Department announced that Dr. Ameet Vohra and Vohra Wound Physicians Management LLC agreed to pay $45 million to resolve allegations that a proprietary electronic medical record was programmed to bill Medicare for surgical excisional debridement whether or not that is what was done.
Vohra is described in the announcement as one of the largest bedside wound-care groups in nursing homes. The United States had sued on April 4, 2025. The complaint, which the settlement resolves as allegations, says that until April 2023 the EMR offered a single procedure labeled “debridement,” then billed every one of those rows as the higher-paying surgical excisional code. Less expensive selective debridement, the government wrote, “simply did not exist” in the software. The same system, the complaint says, auto-applied Modifier 25 so an exam on the same day as a procedure was billed as if it were separately payable, and invented add-on quantities the physician had not entered.
After the government started asking questions, the firm added a selective-debridement option — but, the complaint says, a physician who wanted that option had to pick a “Reason for No Excisional Debridement” from a narrow list. The settlement includes a five-year corporate integrity agreement with HHS-OIG, including an independent review of claims and of the health-information-technology systems.
A False Claims Act settlement resolving allegations is not a criminal conviction and is not a finding that any named patient was harmed. It is a public record of what the United States said the software was built to do, and what the company paid to end the case.
justice.gov — Vohra Wound Physicians $45 million settlement — 11/21/2025
These notes paraphrase a public Department of Justice announcement. A settlement resolving allegations is not a finding by a court unless the announcement says otherwise.