United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy | U.S. Department of Justice
A New York operations manager, Timothy Doyle, has pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court to conspiring to offer and pay kickbacks to doctors for ordering unnecessary brain scans. The plea was entered before U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, who scheduled sentencing for April 3, 2025.
Doyle, aged 45 and from Selden, New York, admitted to one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute. From June 2013 through September 2020, he conspired with others including managers from a mobile medical diagnostics company that performed transcranial doppler (TCD) scans. These scans measure blood flow in parts of the brain.
The conspirators arranged kickback agreements with doctors, offering payments based on the number of TCD ultrasounds ordered. Some payments were made in cash while others were by check. To disguise these payments as legitimate business transactions, they created rental and administrative service agreements which falsely indicated compensation was for use of space and resources at fair market value rather than per test ordered.
This fraudulent scheme led to approximately $70.6 million in false claims billed to Medicare, resulting in Medicare paying about $27.2 million to the TCD company.
Conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute carries a potential sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine up to $250,000. Sentences are determined by a federal district court judge based on U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and applicable statutes.
The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy; Roberto Coviello of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Jodi Cohen from the FBI's Boston Division; Jonathan Wlodyka from IRS Criminal Investigation Division; Carol S. Hamilton from the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration; Ketty Larco-Ward from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; and Christopher Algieri from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Howard Locker and Mackenzie Queenin are prosecuting this case.
The details within charging documents are allegations, and other defendants remain presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in court.
