A 60-year-old Dallas-area doctor will spend decades in prison and pay more than $268 million dollars in restitution after being convicted of conspiracy and healthcare fraud charges as well as obstruction of justice for a scheme that bilked Medicare and Medicaid for hundreds of million of dollars.
For what the Department of Justice called a “large-scale, sophisticated healthcare fraud scheme,” physician Jacques Roy, was sentenced last week to 35 years in prison along with the hefty restitution penalty, for conspiring with several co-defendants to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through companies they owned, including Medistat Group Associates, Apple of Your Eye Health Care Services, Ultimate Care Home Health Services and Charry Home Care Services.
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