Zavier Ash, MD Agreed to Pay $209,000 for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Receiving Remuneration in Exchange for Prescribing Medications

On August 4, 2025, Zavier Ash, MD (Dr. Ash), Snellville, Georgia, entered into a $209,430 settlement agreement with OIG. The settlement agreement resolves allegations that Dr. Ash solicited and received remuneration, in the form of monetary payments related to purported telemedicine consultations, from various telemedicine and staffing companies in exchange for ordering and prescribing medically unnecessary topical pain cream prescription medications for Medicare beneficiaries with whom he had no physician-patient relationship and never examined.