ST. LOUIS — A Missouri psychiatrist has agreed to pay $360,000 to resolve allegations she falsely billed federal and state health programs for psychotherapy services she did not provide, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, the settlement resolves claims that span from January 2019 to May of 2024 that allege Dr. Shazia Malik falsely billed Medicare and Missouri Medicaid for face-to-face psychotherapy sessions, even when she was out of town, or when the services were provided by other doctors.
At the time of the allegations, Dr. Malik worked at Behavioral Health Services LLC, which was owned and operated by Psych Care Consultants in St. Louis.
The settlement with Dr. Malik is made up of $155,000 in restitution to Medicare and $25,000 to Missouri Medicaid. The restitution amount is doubled under the False Claims act (FCA) brining the total settlement amount up to $360,000.
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The civil settlement does not have any admission of guilt or fault from Malik.
In December 2025, Malik pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements related to health care matters.
“Health care professionals who knowingly submit false claims to federal health care programs undermine the financial integrity of those taxpayer-funded programs,” Linda T. Hanley, special agent in charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, said in a statement.
Prosecutors said Malik’s brother, Modh Azfar Malik, a part-owner of Behavioral Health Services, reached a separate civil settlement in July 2025 over similar conduct and paid $501,556.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Missouri Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and the FBI.
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