Dr. Scott Taggart Roethle was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $8.3 million in restitution for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to order medically unnecessary health care for thousands of patients. He played a central role in a massive telemarketing scheme that billed Medicare for medically unnecessary orthotic braces. Overseas call centers collected Medicare information from unsuspecting elderly patients. Doctors, including Dr. Roethle, signed fraudulent orthotic brace prescriptions without evaluating patients or their actual medical needs and while falsely claiming to be their treating physician and having examined and diagnosed them. Read a story from KSHB and a Department of Justice press release.