Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has secured 10 years in federal prison and a $26,622,522 restitution payment for Dr. David M. Young, 61, of Fredericksburg, Texas, who was sentenced for his role in a scheme that defrauded government healthcare programs by prescribing durable medical equipment and genetic tests without seeing or treating patients. Young signed thousands of fraudulent prescriptions and medical records for unnecessary orthotic braces and cancer genetic testing for more than 13,000 Medicare beneficiaries—many of whom he never spoke to or examined—including undercover agents posing as patients. The scheme resulted in the fraudulent billing of more than $70 million to healthcare programs.
