Edinburg doc sentenced to 10 years in prison, $28M in restitution ordered

Jorge Zamora Quezada

An Edinburg doctor convicted of a slew of healthcare fraud charges has been sentenced to a decade in prison and ordered to pay millions in restitution.

Jorge Zamora Quezada was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison followed by a three years of supervised release and ordered to pay more than $28 million in restitution, court records show.

Quezada owned the Center for Arthritis & Osteoporosis in Edinburg where he participated in a scheme to defraud health insurers by misdiagnosing patients with rheumatoid arthritis and over-treating them.

He was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, seven counts of healthcare fraud and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice in January 2020 following a month-long trial.

His wife, Meisy Angelica Zamora, and two former employees, Felix Ramos and Estella Santos Natera, were also arrested for participating in the scheme on charges including tampering with medical records and money laundering.

However, Zamora and Natera were eventually acquitted while the charges against Ramos were dropped after the presiding judge found that the government didn’t present enough evidence during the trial.

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