Daniel Ramiro Canchola, 54, of Flower Mound, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a $54 million healthcare fraud scheme. The scheme, uncovered by Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, centered around writing fraudulent prescriptions for durable medical equipment (DME) and cancer genomic testing. From August 2018 to April 2019, Dr. Canchola received illegal kickbacks to electronically sign DME and cancer genomic testing authorizations for patients he had never seen. These orders, used to submit over $54 million in false claims, were often solicited through telemarketing campaigns and health fairs, misleading government healthcare beneficiaries into receiving unnecessary tests and equipment.
