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Proove raids lead to information damaging to Sovereign Health
July 2, 2017
By Alison Knopf
In last week’s issue, we wrote about a recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid of the offices of Proove Biosciences in Irvine, California (see ADAW, June 26). Proove, a company that claims its tests can determine propensity to opioid addiction, was the target of the investigation. But the article, which was based on an FBI press release, failed to mention the treatment program that was investigated as part of the raid: Sovereign Health, which has programs in San Clemente, Culver City and Palm Desert, as well as in Arizona, Texas, Utah and Florida. Sovereign Health has not been charged in illegal practices in relation to the Proove investigation. However, in addition to illegal practices, the investigation found that Sovereign Health sued patients who failed to pay, and charged $3,410 a day for residential treatment, $2,640 a day for inpatient, $1,980 a day for intensive outpatient and $1,200 per urine test, The Orange County Register reported June 13. One patient had 15 urine tests in a month, resulting in more than $100,000 in charges. “Sovereign Health CEO Tonmoy Sharma was a psychiatrist in the United Kingdom until his license was revoked for conduct deemed dishonest, unprofessional and misleading, according to documents from the General Medical Council of the UK, which licenses physicians there,” The Orange County Register reported. Sharma is no longer practicing.
Sovereign Health has facilities in Ft Myers and Pompano Beach Florida. Joe Matthews lives in Naples. Is Joe still "scamming", I mean working for Proove in some capacity? Naples is smack dab in the middle between these sites. Are the FBI folks investigating Joe? Run Forest run. LOL