Qld doctor guilty of $360k Medicare fraud

A Queensland doctor has been found guilty of defrauding Medicare out of more than $360,000 by submitting thousands of false claims.

A jury found Tony Mufutau Oluwatoyin Bakare guilty on Wednesday after deliberating for less than two hours.

Bakare pleaded not guilty to a single count of obtaining financial advantage by deception at the start of the three-day Brisbane District Court trial.

He lodged about 4000 false claims for providing services to patients who had died, or on dates when he was overseas.

The claims were submitted through Medicare's online system.

Prosecutor Daniel Caruana argued the pattern of claims wasn't consistent with poor record-keeping, but was consistent with deliberate deception.

At the time of the fraud, Bakare owned four bulk-billing medical practices on the Gold Coast and at Underwood, south of Brisbane.

Bakare's defence barrister Mark McCarthy said it made no sense for the doctor to deliberately submit false claims for people he knew had died or for dates when he was overseas.

He said there must have been a "system error" because the prosecution's case "just makes no sense".

After hearing the jury's guilty verdict, Bakare was remanded in custody.

He is expected to be sentenced on Thursday.