Another Case of Psychiatric Fraud in Illinois

A suburban doctor has been indicted for allegedly defrauding the state of roughly $2.1 million by signing off on medical reports for public aid patients he never saw, or saw only briefly. Soo Tong Park, 57, of 1253 Christine Ct. in Vernon Hills, was indicted by the Cook County grand jury on two counts of vendor fraud, two counts of income tax fraud and one count of theft.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Park signed fraudulent patient reports, claiming he had provided psychiatric counseling to Illinois Department of Public Aid recipients, according to an Illinois Attorney General's office news release.