Fresno doctor, pharmaceutical sales rep from Clovis sentenced for fraud scheme

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno doc and a pharmaceutical income typical from Clovis person been sentenced for a large healthcare fraud scheme.

Prosecutors accidental 52-year-old Felipe Ruiz was a podiatrist and proprietor of West Coast Podiatry Incorporated, wherever helium allowed the income rep to signifier medicine.

Between 2021 and 2024, 53-year-old Jose Aguirre sold tegument grafts to Ruiz and was allowed to use those tegument grafts to patients without supervision from a physician.

Ruiz and Aguirre submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Medi-Cal, saying Ruiz and different physicians had performed those procedures.

Over $3 cardinal successful mendacious claims were submitted.

Both men person been sentenced to implicit 5 years successful prison.

They besides indispensable forfeit 9 properties they ain and wage backmost millions of dollars.