Doc imprisoned for medical care fraud scheme: Feds
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Inset: Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada (San Antonio FBI). Background, clockwise from left: the storage facility for Zamora-Quezada’s patient records, one of Zamora-Quezada’s luxury properties, Zamora-Quezada’s jet (DOJ).

A rheumatologist from Texas is facing a prison sentence for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid by conducting unnecessary medical procedures — such as administering chemotherapy to healthy individuals — and fabricating chronic illness diagnoses.

And he did it just so he could live a luxurious lifestyle with fancy cars, a jet and dozens of high-end real estate properties.

Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, aged 68, received a federal prison sentence of 10 years on Wednesday for a count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, seven counts of health care fraud, and a count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, according to the Department of Justice in a press release. Zamora-Quezada was found guilty by a jury following a 25-day trial in 2020.

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Zamora-Quezada made some $118 million in false claims to Medicare and Medicaid and received more than $28 million from insurance companies for tests and treatments his patients did not need. He was ordered to repay the insurance companies the $28 million he stole.

After wrongly diagnosing his patients with rheumatoid arthritis, he prescribed them toxic medications that severely impacted their lives “including strokes, necrosis of the jawbone, hair loss, liver damage, and pain so severe that basic tasks of everyday life, such as bathing, cooking, and driving, became difficult,” the government stated.

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“Constantly being in bed and being unable to get up from bed alone, and being pumped with medication, I didn’t feel like my life had any meaning,” one patient testified.

A mother felt as if her child was a “lab rat.” Young patients said they were “living a life in the body of an elderly person.”

Other doctors who testified at his trial said it was “obvious” that the patients did not have any chronic diseases.

The DOJ said it was imperative Zamora-Quezada face justice.

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