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发帖数: 1998 | 1 Thousands of patients, including children, may have been affected in a
doctor’s alleged scheme that funded his extravagant lifestyle.
Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a rheumatologist based in South Texas, has been
charged in a $240 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme. In
a federal indictment unsealed Monday, the Justice Department accused Zamora-
Quezada of falsely diagnosing patients with degenerative diseases, then
giving those patients chemotherapy and other toxic medications they did not
need.
The indictment says that Zamora-Quezada and his partners in the alleged
fraud created false patient records and hid thousands of actual medical
records in a rundown barn in the the Rio Grande Valley.
According to the statement released by DOJ, Zamora-Quezada used the $50
million he earned from the alleged scheme to fund his “lavish and opulent
lifestyle.” The doctor and his co-conspirators allegedly used earnings from
the fraud to purchase luxury cars, jets, designer clothes, and property in
the U.S. and Mexico. His private jet and Maserati were both branded with his
initials “ZQ.” By allegedly investing the funds in real estate in another
country to conceal the source of the earnings, the doctor also allegedly
engaged in international money laundering.
“Today’s indictment is the first step in holding Dr. Zamora-Quezada
accountable for his allegedly egregious criminal conduct,” C.J. Porter,
special agent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of
Inspector General’s Dallas Region, said in a statement. “His patients
trusted him and presumed his integrity; in return he allegedly engaged in a
scheme of false diagnoses and bogus courses of treatment and doled out
prescriptions for unnecessary and harmful medications, all for his personal
financial gain and with no regard for patient well-being.”
According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, health care
fraud costs the U.S. $68 billions each year.
Maria Zapata, a former patient of Zamora-Quezada, told CNN the doctor
diagnosed her with arthritis and gave her injections he said would help her
knee. She said the treatment didn’t help, and she noticed discoloration in
her leg. Her family doctor told her she didn’t have arthritis, and other
doctors expressed concern.
Another patient, Raymond Orta, told Rio Grande Valley’s local CBS affiliate
that he went to Zamora-Quezada for joint pain and the doctor diagnosed him
with rheumatoid arthritis and administered heavy “chemo-level drugs.” Orta
grew more concerned as he gained more than a hundred pounds before he
finally went to another doctor.
“Instead of helping me up as a doctor, he essentially spit on me while I
was down,” Orta told CBS 4 News. “Like at the lowest level, this dude spit
on me and kicked me while I was down.” | w*p
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: Thousands of patients, including children, may have been affected in a
: doctor’s alleged scheme that funded his extravagant lifestyle.
: Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a rheumatologist based in South Texas, has been
: charged in a $240 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme. In
: a federal indictment unsealed Monday, the Justice Department accused Zamora-
: Quezada of falsely diagnosing patients with degenerative diseases, then
: giving those patients chemotherapy and other toxic medications they did not
: need.
: The indictment says that Zamora-Quezada and his partners in the alleged
: fraud created false patient records and hid thousands of actual medical
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