Dr. Myria Petrou Asks HHS-OIG to Remove Her Name from University of Michigan Medical-Billing Complaint She Did Not Submit (January 16, 2024)
On January 16, 2024, Dr. Myria Petrou sent HHS-OIG a notarized letter requesting removal of Dr. Petrou’s name from a medical-billing complaint concerning University of Michigan Radiology. “I did not file a complaint to the OIG about the medical billing,” Dr. Petrou wrote.
Dr. Petrou had filed the July 15, 2017 complaint concerning Dr. Robert Welsh’s reported work effort on NIH Grant R01NS082304. HHS-OIG’s earlier disclosures described an investigation involving that grant, which Dr. Petrou understood to concern the July 15 complaint.
During Dr. Bradley Foerster’s litigated FOIA appeal, Foerster v. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 1:21-cv-01433-DLF, Assistant United States Attorney Dedra Curteman identified Dr. Petrou as the complainant associated with HHS-OIG Case No. 5-17-0-0192-4.
The January 2024 FOIA disclosure supplied the October 6, 2017 opening memorandum. That memorandum expressly described medical-billing allegations involving MiChart, alongside alleged fraud involving NIH Grant R01NS082304. The August 21, 2019 closing memorandum carried the same case number but described the NIH grant investigation and closure following a U.S. Attorney’s declination of criminal prosecution. Dr. Petrou compared the memoranda and revisited the FOIA litigation, recognizing that HHS-OIG had associated Dr. Petrou’s name with a medical-billing complaint Dr. Petrou had not submitted.
In the January 16 letter, Dr. Petrou explained that Dr. Petrou had signed a billing-concern letter with Dr. Foerster, Dr. Cronin, and Dr. Kelly for University counsel. Dr. Petrou had not submitted that complaint to HHS-OIG. Dr. Petrou asked the agency to explain how to remove Dr. Petrou’s name or confirm that removal had been completed.
The later FOIA release of the July 20, 2017 intake form supplied the submission timestamp. Dr. Petrou then questioned Dr. Cronin and Dr. Kelly about that timing in the February–March 2024 correspondence presented in the preceding post.
The agency records and January 16 letter appear below. The available record contains no response from HHS-OIG to Dr. Petrou’s removal request.
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Brad Foerster, MD PhD
Brad Foerster is a FOIA advocate documenting requests, transparency disputes, and accountability investigations involving public agencies, universities, police oversight, and Russia-Gate related inquiries. His work compiles original documents, timelines, and analysis of public records and institutional responses. Brad is also a board-certified radiologist, author of Town & Gown, and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles. Brad lives in Potomac, Maryland with his family and is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society and the Takoma Park U.S. & World History Book Club.