Selden Operations Manager Pleads Guilty In Large-Scale Kickback Scheme
Monday, January 6, 2025, 8:30 A.M. ET. 2 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
BOSTON, MA. On Friday, a New York operations manager appeared in U.S. Federal Court in Boston, Massachusetts, and pleaded guilty to his role in a seven-year medical kickback scheme that bilked Medicare out of more than $27 million by ordering medically unnecessary brain scans.
According to U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy, on Friday, January 3, 2025, Timothy Doyle, 45, of Selden, New York, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to one count of Conspiracy to Violate the Anti-Kickback Statue.
Doyle Faces Up To 5 Years In Prison When Sentenced
Following his guilty plea, Judge Gorton accepted it and scheduled sentencing for April 3, 2025. At that time, Doyle faces up to five years in federal prison, at least three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. Judge Gorton will determine the actual term of imprisonment based on the seriousness of the offense and Doyle’s prior criminal history, if any.
According To The Charging Documents
According to the charging documents filed with the District Court, beginning in and around June 2013 and lasting through September 2020, Doyle conspired with others, including two managers for a mobile medical diagnostic company that performed Transcranial Doppler Scans, to enter into kickback agreements with various doctors.
Transcranial Doppler Scans are brain scans that measure blood flow in parts of the brain. Doyle and his alleged co-conspirators agreed to offer and pay doctors kickbacks, some in cash and others by check, based on the number of Transcranial Doppler Scans the doctors ordered. Doyle and his co-conspirators created purported rental and administrative services agreements, which, on paper, made it appear as if doctors were compensated for the Transcranial Doppler Scan company’s use of space and administrative resources of the ordering doctor’s practice based on fair market value and not based on the volume or value of the referrals.
These agreements were shams that hid the true nature of the arrangements of paying per test. The seven-year scheme resulted in fraudulent bills of around $70.6 million to Medicare, which paid out $27.2 million to the Transcranial Doppler Scan company’s fraudulent claims.
