A North Texas licensed professional counselor was convicted Thursday in a multimillion dollar scheme to defraud the federal government by prescribing phony and unnecessary treatments for depression.
Jurors in Fort Worth found Kevin Curry, 64, guilty of giving kickbacks to active-duty service members, military veterans and their families for transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy they did not need. In many cases, court documents say, patients never received the treatments.
Curry presented himself to patients as a physician, using doctors’ credentials without their knowledge to bill TRICARE, the military’s health insurer, according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Curry paid patients $5.5 million in bribes and kickbacks between September 2022 and the end of 2025, billing $26 million to insurance. Of that, TRICARE paid about $17 million.
The counselor then used the proceeds to fund stays at five-star hotels, pricey furniture, a lavish casino-themed party for employees and TRICARE beneficiaries, and a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck worth more than $100,000, court documents say.
In a statement, assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald said Curry exploited a critical health care program in an “affront to the military community and the American public.”
Curry, who lives in Frisco, did not respond to a text message or phone call Friday afternoon. He operated clinics, Acuity TMS, in Plano and Fort Worth, and a third, Emerald Coast TMS in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The clinics’ websites were no longer active Friday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved transcranial magnetic stimulation in 2008, but the treatment has evolved and expanded in recent years, according to the American Psychological Association.
A non-invasive treatment, TMS uses magnetic pulses to generate an electric current that can repair disrupted brain circuits. It is only recommended after other depression treatments have not worked. In addition to depression, it is now approved to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and migraines and to help patients quit smoking.
Charges against Curry were announced in June as part of a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care fraud. Federal authorities said at the time they had identified $365 million in fraudulent and false claims and seized more than $35 million in cash, luxury vehicles and other assets.
Sentencing is pending. Curry faces up to 90 years in prison.