Doctor who incorrectly diagnosed patients in the fraud scheme, sentenced to 10 years in prison for 10 years

A Texan doctor who was found guilty of fraud for the incorrect diagnosis of patients with diseases they did not have was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

According to a press release from the US Ministry of Justice, Dr. Jorge Zamora Quezada convicted of May 21 to 10 years in prison and supervised for three years for his role in a fraud program for health care, which included more than $ 118 million in false claims and the payment of more than $ 28 million of insurers.

During the Texas negotiation of Zamora Quezada, the prosecutors said that he had incorrectly diagnosed his patients with diseases and charged their insurance companies for procedures and tests that they did not need for their own financial profit.

According to his conviction, the 68-year-old Zamora Quezada is also forced to expire about $ 28 million, including 13 real estate objects, a jet and a Maserati Granturismo sports car.

“Zamora Quezada diagnosed his patients with rheumatoid arthritis and administered poisonous medication to cheat Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare and Blue Cross Blue Shield,” says the press release. “The defendant's fraudulent diagnoses believed that they had a lifelong, incurable state that required regular treatment in his offices.”

“After Zamora Quezada incorrectly diagnosed his patients, she gave unnecessary treatments and ordered unnecessary tests to her, including a variety of injections, infusions, X-rays, MRTS and other process-all-offs with potentially harmful and even fatal side effects,” the press release continued. “In order to receive payment for these expensive services, Zamora Quezada invented medical documents and lied the insurers about the patient's condition.”

According to the Doj, Zamora Quezada was a rheumatologist who was licensed for practice in Texas, Arizona and Massachusetts. Since then, all of his medical licenses have been revoked.

The public prosecutor also argued that Zamora Quezada tried to cover up the fraud, and “falsified fake patient files to support the wrong diagnoses after receiving the federal jury”. His program lasted almost 20 years and included around 325 million US dollars, the Doj said before.

Zamora Quezada was found guilty of a conspiracy for the inspection of fraud in healthcare, seven cases of fraud in healthcare and a conspiracy for the disability of justice in 2020.

The local Outlet KrGV reported that his conviction was delayed several times, since the prosecutors and the defenders of Zamora Quezada did not agree to a number of victims in the program or on the stolen amount of money.

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Zamora Quezada was also accused of having created a toxic environment for the employees of his clinic-many of whom were on working visa to live in the USA by getting angry if they did not fulfill or say a quota for procedures and try to revoke their visa if they speak against him.

“Certificate in the court hearing showed that Zamora Quezada told employees'Apartcer ' The missing records – “they appear,” said the doj. “Former employees were also sent to a dilapidated barn to try to access records. There were files with feces and urine, rodents and termites that not only affected the records, but also the structure.”

According to the doj, other rheumatologists in the Rio Grande Valley region in Texas in the study by Zamora Quezada saw that they saw hundreds of patients who had incorrectly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. A doctor even said that it was obvious for “most” doctors “that these patients did not have the autoimmune disease.

The prosecutors also argued that the false diagnoses and medication that Zamora Quezada would have prescribed patients caused “weakening” side effects, including strokes, necrosis (or cell and tissue death) of the jawbone, hair loss, liver damage and severe pain.

“I am constantly in bed and was unable to get out of bed alone and to be pumped with medication. I didn't have the feeling that my life had a meaning,” said a patient during the experiment according to the Doj.

Another patient's mother said she felt that her child served as a “laboratory rat” and other patients said “they lived a life in the body of an older person”.

“Dr. Zamora Quezada financed his luxurious lifestyle for two decades by traumatizing his patients, abusing his employees, lying to insurers and steel,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the DOJ criminal police in the press release.

“His spoiled behavior represents a profound treason against patients in need of protection who rely on the care and integrity of their doctor,” added Galeotti.