{"id":270969,"date":"2026-04-16T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:06:08","slug":"fresno-doctor-pharmaceutical-sales-rep-from-clovis-sentenced-for-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/270969\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno doctor, pharmaceutical sales rep from Clovis sentenced for fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:44PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Fresno doctor, pharmaceutical rep from Clovis sentenced for fraud\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno doctor and a pharmaceutical sales representative from Clovis have been sentenced for a major healthcare fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors say 52-year-old Felipe Ruiz was a podiatrist and owner of West Coast Podiatry Incorporated, where he allowed the sales rep to practice medicine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Between 2021 and 2024, 53-year-old Jose Aguirre sold skin grafts to Ruiz and was allowed to apply those skin grafts to patients without supervision from a physician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ruiz and Aguirre submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare, Medicaid and Medi-Cal, saying Ruiz and other physicians had performed those procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Over $3 million in false claims were submitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both men have been sentenced to over five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">They also must forfeit nine properties they own and pay back millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 16, 2026 3:44PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno doctor and a pharmaceutical sales representative from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[117707,117705,112,117703,114,113,117704,294,117706],"class_list":["post-270969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-117707","tag-felipe-ruiz","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-doctor","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-pharma-sales-rep","tag-timely","tag-west-coast-podiatry-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}