The former owner of several physical therapy clinics in Greater Boston was sentenced on May 23, 2024, for healthcare fraud charges. Chang Goo Yoon, 62, a South Korean national residing in Queens, NY, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Yoon was also ordered to pay restitution in an amount to be determined at a later date. Yoon was the owner and operator of several physical therapy clinics in Allston, Waltham, and Brookline between 2014 and 2018. Yoon billed patients for non-existent physical therapy appointments, including approximately $150,000 in claims billed on dates when Yoon was traveling in South Korea, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Yoon also billed $50,000 in claims on dates when he was gambling at casinos including the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, NJ, MGM Springfield in Massachusetts, and Twin River Casino in Lincoln, RI. Additionally, Yoon submitted approximately $30,000 in physical therapy claims for himself after three automobile accidents. Most of those claims falsely listed one of Yoon’s employees as the servicing physical therapist. The remaining claims listed Yoon as both the patient and the servicing physical therapist. In total, the Court found that the defendant submitted more than $1 million in false insurance claims and reaped more than $300,000 in fraudulent proceeds.
