South Texas Doctor Charged with $240 Million Health Care Fraud

Big case now out in the open about Medical fraud !!

A doctor in Texas has been charged with massive fraud and money laundering.

Never know who's honest these days do ya.

The indictment was "unsealed" and brought into the Sun.Light ✴️

Wonder if they used Chemical Bank ? 😎🎁

South Texas Doctor Charged with $240 Million Health Care Fraud and International Money Laundering Scheme

A physician based in the McAllen, Texas area was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his role in a $240 million health care fraud and international money laundering scheme.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan J. Patrick of the Southern District of Texas, Special Agent in Charge C.J. Porter of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) Dallas Region and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Field Office made the announcement.

Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 61, of Mission, Texas, was charged in a seven-count indictment filed in the Southern District of Texas. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, five counts of health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Zamora-Quezada had his initial court appearance earlier today. His detention hearing is tomorrow, May 15, at 2 p.m. CDT before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter E. Ormsby in the McAllen Division of the Southern District of Texas.

was it childrens dental.......I wonder.......they are really misusing

a reply to: xuenchen

Insurance fraud is the 2nd most costly economic crime in America (only after Tax Evasion)The $80 Billion Cost of Lying

And then there was that guy in Florida who ripped off Medicare to the tune of $1 billion www.cnbc.com...

Who pays? The taxpayers pay....

Disgusting human being.

a reply to: xuenchen

Seems to be everywhere.
I went to UNR in 93 to 95.

www.lasvegasnow.com...

The auditors found that billing errors, including overbilling of third party insurers, were rampant. Some doctors committed errors 50 percent of the time, 80 percent of the time, 90 percent of the time.

The audit was inspired, in part, by whistleblowers, resident doctors who reported blatant acts of fraudulent billing. Why didn't the audit confirm those allegations? In a 2016 memo, UNR School of Medicine Dean Thomas Schwenk explained it this way -- this audit looked for coding errors. It would not be able to identify the alleged misconduct. (June 17, 2016)

This audit found billing errors across the board, but, by design, it was never going to uncover the kind of outright fraud which had been alleged by employees. In the words of one physician whistleblower, they didn't want to find fraud. The audit found many mistakes, but it was a smokescreen.

a reply to: FamCore

I was just thinking, "and now we've found Florida's next governor."

a reply to: xuenchen

Cushy jail time isn't enough of a deterrent anymore. Start putting these guys on death row.

a reply to: xuenchen

Never know who's honest these days do ya.

Actually, its fairly fricking obvious who's honest these days.

They're usually the ones who're busting their arses every day for an honest dollar, living pay check to pay check, while been shunned by their peers.

Its the people living on easy street who seem to have a lot of people looking out for them, who you want to be wary of...

originally posted by: Subaeruginosa
a reply to: xuenchen

Never know who's honest these days do ya.

Actually, its fairly fricking obvious who's honest these days.

They're usually the ones who're busting their arses every day for an honest dollar, living pay check to pay check, while been shunned by their peers.

Its the people living on easy street who seem to have a lot of people looking out for them, who you want to be wary of...

Ummm...I gave you a star for that comment...it's true...

Anyone that is extremely well off...has used allot of other people and their misfortune as stepping stones to get to that state...it's the nature of the beast...





YouSir

Who isn't doing their job to monitor and verify the charges and money flow. That sun of money doesn't happen in a few months or years.

a reply to: xuenchen

The entire system is corrupt. When a hospital charges $80 for a box of tissues, how is that not a crime?

a reply to: FamCore

And lets not forget the Mental Health clinic owner in Wisconsin who received something like over 95% of all CMS (medicaid/medicare) reimbursements in the entire state for the Mental Health specialty. I think I read about this only a few months back.