LIVONIA, MI -- A doctor has been ordered to pay the government nearly $3 million in restitution after being convicted of Medicare fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Jonathan Agbebiyi, 63, of Sterling Heights, who worked at three Livonia clinics between 2007 and 2010, was also sentenced Thursday to 5 years in prison and 2 years of supervised release.

He was convicted in May conspiracy to commit health care fraud and six counts of health care fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Investigators accused Agbebiyi, a gynecologist, of billing Medicare for medically unnecessary neurological tests.

Prosecutors said the patients were not referred to the clinics by other doctors, but were recruited for the treatments in exchange for prescriptions, cash and fast food.

The patients underwent tests that sometimes involved sending an electrical current through their arms and legs -- administered by untrained clinic employees -- and never received any follow-up neurology treatment, according to the FBI, which investigated the case along with the U.S. Health and Human Services Department's Office of Inspector General.

Medicare was billed about $515 per test.

“This doctor exposed patients to electrical currents for neurological testing solely to generate money for himself at the expense of the Medicare program," said U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade in a news release. "We hope that cases like this one will deter other doctors from using patients as commodities for personal gain.”

Agbebiyi was charged last year along with nine other employees, managers and owners of the three clinics-- Bless, LLC, Manuel MC, LLC, and Alpha & Omega MC, LLC, which the government said cost Medicare a total of $5.4 million in fraudulent claims.

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