TOPEKA – A Topeka physician, 47-year-old Diana Carver, has been charged in federal court with health care fraud.

Carver is charged in a criminal information filed in U.S. District Court in Topeka with one count of health care fraud and one count of illegally obtaining prescription drugs.

The complaint alleges Carver continued to practice medicine after her license was suspended by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts in July 2010. In September, October and November 2010, Carver submitted false claims to Medicare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and FMH for services she no longer was licensed to provide. In addition, she illegally used another doctor’s DEA registration number to obtain controlled prescription drugs including Zolpidem, Hydrocodone, Alprazolam and Phentermine.

If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 10-years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on health care fraud count, and a maximum penalty of four years and a fine up to $250,000 on the prescription drug count.