Telemarketer Sentenced for $67 Million Scheme

Jose Goyos was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud Medicare by billing over $67 million for medically unnecessary genetic testing. According to court documents and trial evidence, Goyos was employed at a call center that engaged in deceptive telemarketing calls targeting thousands of Medicare beneficiaries and their physicians. Goyos managed the so-called “doctor chase” call center division, which contacted the primary care physicians of targeted Medicare beneficiaries and tricked these medical providers into ordering medically unnecessary genetic tests based on medical paperwork that the call center created. Read a story from Regtechtimes and a Department of Justice press release.

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