Doctor with history of maiming patients sentenced to 35 years in $373 million home health scheme
A 6-year-old girl died after being treated by Jacques Roy, but that was only the beginning, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
Roy got two patients hooked on prescription drugs so he could have sex with them, one of whom died in a car wreck with high levels of the drug in her system.
His botched treatment of a man who went to him for erectile dysfunction and left the patient impotent and in excruciating pain, the details of which were too explicit to mention in court.
Dallas County officials fired him as one of their jail doctors after just six months for prescribing narcotics to an inmate — a pattern of improper prescribing that led to the suspension of his medical license.
But the former Rockwall physician may be best remembered for masterminding a record $373 million home health fraud scheme against Medicare and Medicaid using fake patients — including some of Dallas' homeless — by promising them cash, food stamps and groceries.
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