Texas Doctor Gets 10 Years in Prison for Diagnosing Healthy People with Chronic Conditions

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Texas Doctor Gets 10 Years in Prison for Diagnosing Healthy People with Chronic Conditions

A Texas rheumatologist was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a cruel health care fraud scheme that involved diagnosing hundreds of healthy people with chronic diseases that required expensive and dangerous treatments.

Jorge Zamora-Quezada M.D. of Mission, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, several counts of healthcare fraud, and conspiracy to obstruct justice and received a sentence of 10 years behind bars and three years of supervised release. For years, the 68-year-old rheumatologist falsely diagnosed patients with chronic illnesses to bill for tests and treatments that they didn’t need, for his own enrichment. Evidence presented by prosecutors showed that his fraud scheme involved over $118 million in false claims and the payment of over $28 million by insurers, which allowed him to fund an incredibly lavish lifestyle. By profiting off of innocent victims, Zamora-Quezada was able to amass a sizeable fortune, including 13 real estate properties, a jet, and a Maserati GranTurismo.

“Dr. Zamora-Quezada funded his luxurious lifestyle for two decades by traumatizing his patients, abusing his employees, lying to insurers, and stealing taxpayer money,” said Matthew R. Galeotti, Head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

During Dr. Zamora-Quezada’s trial, other Texas rheumatologists testified to seeing hundreds of patients previously diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis by the accused. None of them had the condition, but they had all been prescribed powerful medication and treatments with debilitating and even deadly side effects. Some patients suffered strokes, necrosis of the jawbone, hair loss, liver damage, and excruciating pain that made even the most mundane tasks impossible.

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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 victim said, while others claimed they abandoned college plans because the treatements made them fel like they were living in the body of an elderly person.

Apart from knowingly debilitating healthy patients to finance his lavish lifestyle, Zamora-Quezada reportedly traumatized his staff and blackmailed them to make sure they did his bidding. He mostly hired people who were on J-1 visas so he could threaten to fire them and jeopardize their immigration status, got rid of those who didn’t blindly follow his orders, and abused anyone who failed to generate enough unnecessary procedures for patients, even if they were perfectly healthy.

Patients as young as 13 were treated by Zamora-Quezada at his medical practices in South Texas and San Antonio, and his sentencing brought much-needed closure to hundreds of victims and their families. Although some of them have serious health problems as a result of the medication and treatments prescribed by the disgraced rheumatologist, they can take comfort in knowing that he has been brought to justice, and others won’t have to suffer the same ordeal.

Jorge Zamora-Quezada will have to serve 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay back $28,245,454, including his 13 real estate properties, private jet, and luxury cars.

Why don't these people ever leave? Did he really think he could keep this up forever? He should have bounced to a country with no extradition treaty.

Rogan talked about this briefly the other day really good exposure to this shit

Doctors do that all the time. Most doctors are evil, sorry! Real life isn't Sesame Street.

imagine seeing a beaner for any reason, let alone medical stuff jfc

The medical establishment is aghast that he couldn't do it for 50 years, anon. They want people to be sick, or at least think that they are sick so they can sell them expensive drugs that create a need for more drugs.
Food is medicine, look into it.

Actually it is, because once Luis and Maria moved in, Sesame Street switched to nothing but Spanish, a troll became the star of the show, then a pedophile muppet, then it became worthless

This is happening everywhere. They either over prescribe or don't give you shit unless you come back 3 different times wasting your goddamned time when all you need is the most baby anti biotic of all time

It got cancelled. It's over.

inb4 nuh uh it's on Netflix now

Like I said, they're done. Ended.

This. When I had real medical issues, they played dumb, yet they pushed a vaccine on me (way before covid 2020) and it hurt me badly. No more vaccines ever now. I fully recovered with no thanks to them. I am a better doctor than "real" doctors.

Amerimutt s3nators do this all the time, but instead of getting charged, they get to send more funds to israel
I will never trust any medic jew, like most amerimutts, Were they put you in debt for a single flu , and he isn't hispanic in the average sense, He was a sephardic jew, zamora and quesada are both sephardic jewish surnames

saar, don't be angry we just work harder

yeah, they drain every single cent of hipocondriacs any time they can
and if they can prolongate a disiese to make it "progressive" they will
The more you go to a hospital, the sicker you might get, and the u.s doesn't have any tipe of actual social security or restrictions of ((meds)) so its a free shekel farm for it

Quota for procedures

Demonic. How can you even delineate something like that

They even intiatally refused to give me the antidote for Lyme disease even though I had all the signs. Modern doctors WANT their patients to be in pain. They WANT their patients to die early. Why? Partly because the Federal Government PAYS them to kill patients. Remember covid and them intubating everyone who didn't need it? They got paid 30K for each dead patient.
MONEY MONEY MONEY
MUHHHHHHHHHHHNEY

No one thought of getting a second opinion?

made tens of millions

Eligible for pardon.

All true. The best thing we can do is be our own doctors practicing natural medicine with good foods and good practices.

Sauce or more details please I fucking despise that faggot show

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-t. does not have Netflix

an ugly non-White who harms Whites?!

*cums* oh he is so pardoned!

I was born in Canada, I lived in this shithole my whole life. We get free healthcare over here. I haven;t been to a doctor in close to 25 years. I lost all trust in the medical community decades ago. No doctor actually ever cured anything. They are nothing more than over glorified drug dealers for the pharmaceutical industries. The amount of sick people only went up with the introduction of medical institutions,

I had to go to the ER for gout issues and the entire place was a ghost town. I was the only patient there and they treated me like shit and assumed that I worshiped Trump, even though I hate him. Doctors and nurses all evil drones. NPCs, if you will.

What a chad

How can you even delineate something like that

when pharma companies approach doctors with a new drug, offering loads of money IN EXCHANGE of them prescribing said drug over others.
those pharma agents make bank.

Based.

Take your meds. eat your adderall

he isn't hispanic in the average sense, He was a sephardic jew

A sephardic jew IS a hispanic in the average sense. Who do you think made up the majority of the newcomers? Brotip it wasn't ethnic Castillians

be healthy

go to hospital

now you are sick and need to buy medicine

Many such cases.

always get a second opinion anons

And people get mad at health insurance companies for demanding physicians attestations on almost all billable items. Surprised the insurances didn't get him earlier.

go get a second opinion

that doctor is also corrupt

lol We're all better off using WebMD or our own intuitions than seeing Doctor Nigger.

The amount of sick people only went up with the introduction of medical institutions

Partly because of dysgenics caused by that very medical care. Modern Medicine is the great filter, isn't it?

The insurance companies are making even more money, an order of magnitude more money than the corrupt doctor. Why would they ever raise an issue?

Many anons don't know that insurance companies have more money than banks. Banks (for now) can't force you to give them your money like insurance companies can complete with their own army (cops) who will try to ruin your life if you don't gamble against your will.

They want people to be sick, or at least think that they are sick so they can sell them expensive drug

saar

Jorge Quezada

this guy's a fucking mexican

They are nothing more than over glorified drug dealers for the pharmaceutical industries

they wouldn't be were it not for the fact that the population is entirely obese nigger cattle

Why would they ever raise an issue?

Because said doc is forcing them to actually pay out. Those insurance companies are the ones paying for all that unnecessary work. This isn't the usual situation of Doc and Insurance being in cahoots to screw the patient, in this case the Doc fucked up by screwing both the pt and the insurance, and the insurance went after him and won. Don't get greedy, kids!

there is this wrong conception that thinks "hispanic" is a race, well, its not, its more of a cultural/lenguage concept
In wich, jews, castillians (modern day spaniards) amerindians (native americans) and africans claim being hispanic out of either miscesgenation or purely culture
in these countries, you will see that the elites end up being sephardic jews and some castilians, always end up calling themselves hispanics or their made up "nationality" from mexican, to argentina to colombia

They did, that’s why he got caught

And he got ten years with probation. What a joke. He should be executed. He literally caused healthy people to endure agony so that he could buy a sports car and 12 more houses. I didn't make any of that up^

Why are Jeets like this?

Liars come in all colors unfortunately.

The medical industry is mostly a government funded grift at this point.
The doctors make good money, but the hospital/healthcare franchises and pharma are getting filthy rich.
Affordable care means someone else will pay the extortionate price for it and universal health care will only make matters worse.

wow, he's not even a jeet. I was expecting "Hello Saar, I am calling from Microhealth and we have detected a virus in your body"

life ruined because of a doctor

but at least his life is ruined too!

is there any way for them to sue and get some sort of compensation, or are they just completely fucked?

Affordable care means someone else will pay the extortionate price for it and universal health care will only make matters worse.

This.
ACA quite literally takes resources from better-to-dos and gives them to the have-nots. Obama enacted socialism, plain and simple.

weird how they are not doing this to every doctor.

is there any way for them to sue and get some sort of compensation

Sure, as long as they are strapped with cash, they can easily get justice.

or are they just completely fucked?

Take one guess.

My PCP is a skinny jeeta in her early 30s with big titties.

When she did my physical last time, she grabbed my cock with one hand to get it out of the way while she had me cough. She kept palpating it until I was half erect and then asked me if I had weekend plans (I did).

They are an added oversight though. 1/3 of the claims staff are former nurses or other former health professionals. Doctors, nurses, therapists don't cover for one another or each other, but many turn blind eyes to obvious colleague malfeasance.

While true, health care systems like hospitals make the most profit in the health care industry, followed by pharmaceutical companies, then health insurance, second to last being healthcare equipment providers, and at the end doctors and the remaining healthcare practitioners.

I know this may sound crazy, but doctors are not paid enough. And I think that's what actually leads to some committing insurance and privilege fraud once they become attendings. PGY through Fellowship, the pay for the cost of an AMA approved MD school is not generous at all. So many get tempted to fraud by feeling owed a cut for putting in the hours and early hard work.

More oversight on patient procedures are needed across all procedures, prescriptions, and examinations. Sorta like in hospital algorithms like eCart and the like. But for even the littlest most minute stuff. Because the fact of the matter is, just how we can agree that health insurance companies are inherently greedy due to their solemn and exclusive fiduciary duty to their shareholders, we should also admit that there are lots of incompetent doctors and many in private practice commit fraud too. We already track those that dispense opioids, across the country. Why not for the other things too?

fucker deserves the electric chair

That's what I'm sayin, anon. 10 years...for ruining multiple lives. So that he could buy things.

That is what YOU think mestizo. For europeans, hispanic is spanish, racially spanish. For south and central americans they like to cling to this idea from the spanish empire that southern europe and all of the mixed race people of south and central america are united in a common culture. We are not mestizo, and it just goes to show your ignorance of the old world and of Europeans in general. They don't want to be in a category with you.

doctors aren't paid enough

Fuck out of here

Those are board certified attendings... None get paid anywhere near that amount before that.

Let's put it this way. I have a PhD from Harvard and I own a 35 foot yacht ($130K) and own a 2 bedroom condo in a Los Angeles beach city ($1.4M value)

Two of my friends who did MDs and MD/PhDs at Harvard own 50 footers ($500K) and have multiple properties including actual houses in the beach cities ($3-4M).

We're all about 8 years out of school right now. Don't give my your poor under-compensated and over-worked MD bullshit. I had more schooling in more selective programs and put in more hours than most of them.

You don't take into account their insurance, privilege fees, and taxes. For example, at $788k, you'll only be netting $480k after taxes. And that's without your malpractice insurance, privilege fees, or your ~ $200,000 medical school debt. And most of the highest paid are surgeons. And the majority of their pay is based on how many and what type of procedures they perform. But again, I'm of the belief they should be paid more throughout their residency.