In 2005 an investigation of the Malik family of psychiatrists in the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area revealed that they were the top fraud violators of the psychiatric profession in the St. Louis area.
The fraud investigator from IntegriGuard LLC of Omaha, Nebraska (a private company that had a contract to investigate Medicare and Medicaid fraud) at that time said, “When we are done with our fraud investigation we are sending to the Federal HHS OIG our recommendation that the Maliks and Psych Care Consultants be charged with criminal actions.”
Several complaints were filed against members of the Malik organization with no immediate results.
However, we can announce today that Dr. Mohd Azfar Malik, 71, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to making false statements related to health care matters.
Malik, the psychiatrist who owns Psych Care Consultants LLC, will surrender his Drug Enforcement Administration registrations authorizing him to administer controlled substances.
The U.S. Department of Justice noted on May 22, 2025 that “Dr. Malik admitted submitting claims for payment to Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurers in which he falsely claimed to have performed in-person services when he was out of Missouri or out of the country.”
Dr. Asim Muhammad Ali, 54, an internal medical specialist working for Malik, also pleaded guilty to illegally distributing controlled substances (ketamine) and several other crimes.
They both are scheduled to be sentenced in August, 2025.
Not only have they committed fraud, they have also committed patient abuse, since the use of ketamine to treat so-called depression is unethical and actually harmful, since it precludes the patient from finding out what is actually wrong and getting that treated.
Ketamine, a powerful psychedelic anesthetic, is being relentlessly touted as a “new antidepressant” when in fact it just knocks you out so you don’t feel much of anything. Ketamine is also known to be a date-rape drug, used by rapists to quell their victim’s movements.
Psychiatrists pushing ketamine are shameful drug pushers who are making a buck off people’s misfortune, and defrauding insurance providers in the process.
If you know someone who has been abused by psychiatry, encourage them to file a complaint here.