A former New York operations manager has been sentenced for conspiring to offer and pay kickbacks to physicians in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans, prosecutors said.
Timothy Doyle, 45, of Selden, New Yorkwas sentenced to 14 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, according to a Feb. 13 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Doyle was also ordered to pay $27,225,434 in restitution and $1,102,725 in forfeiture, prosecutors said.
In January 2025 , Doyle pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute, the statement said.
Doyle was employed as an operations manager by TCD Co., a Long Island-based company that performed mobile diagnostic services, including transcranial doppler scans in several states, including Massachusetts. TCD scans are brain scans that measure blood flow in parts of the brain.
From at least June 2013 through at least September 2020, prosecutors allege that Doyle conspired with others, including two managers for a company that performed TCD scans, to offer and pay doctors kickbacks, some in cash and others by check.
The doctors ordered tens of thousands of unnecessary brain scans which were billed to Medicare and private insurers, prosecutors said.
Doyle and his alleged co-conspirators used purported rental and administrative service agreements to conceal the payments, prosecutors said. These agreements made it seem as though they were paying the doctors for space or administrative resources rather than for the number of unnecessary tests the doctors ordered.
The scheme resulted in fraudulent bills of approximately $70.6 million to Medicare, according to the statement. Medicare paid around $27.2 million to the TCD company for the fraudulent claims, prosecutors said.
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