David Fuhrmann, Kickback Scheme, Massachusetts 2025

BOSTON – A former New York based sales director for the Northeast region of a mobile medical diagnostics company was sentenced in federal court in Boston for conspiring to offer and pay kickbacks to doctors in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans.

David Fuhrmann, 60, of Point Jefferson Station, N.Y. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to three years in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release. The defendant was also ordered to pay $27,225,434.44 in restitution, to forfeit $1,102,725.96 and to pay a $30,000 fine.

In April 2025, Fuhrmann pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute.

From June 2013 through at least September 2020, Fuhrmann conspired with others, including two managers for a mobile medical diagnostics company that performed transcranial doppler (TCD) scans, to enter into kickback agreements with various doctors. TCD scans are brain scans that measure blood flow in parts of the brain. Fuhrmann and his co-conspirators agreed to offer and pay doctors kickbacks, some in cash and others by check, based on the number of TCD ultrasounds the doctors ordered.

The scheme resulted in fraudulent bills of approximately $70.6 million to Medicare. Medicare paid approximately $27.2 million to the TCD company for the fraudulent claims.

United States Attorney Leah B. Foley; Roberto Coviello, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General; Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division; Thomas Demeo, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Boston Field Office; Kelly M. Lawson, Acting Regional Director, U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration, Boston Regional Office; Nicholas Bucciarelli, Acting Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division; and Christopher Algieri, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, Northeast Field Office made the announcement today.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mackenzie Queenin, Chief of the Health Care Fraud Unit prosecuted the case.

David Fuhrmann, a 60-year-old resident of Point Jefferson Station, N.Y., was sentenced to three years in prison for conspiring to offer and pay kickbacks to doctors in exchange for ordering medically unnecessary brain scans.

Fuhrmann, the former New York based sales director, pleaded guilty in April 2025 to one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute.

The scheme, which occurred from June 2013 through at least September 2020, resulted in fraudulent bills of approximately $70.6 million to Medicare and paid approximately $27.2 million to the TCD company for the fraudulent claims.

Fuhrmann was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to three years in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $27,225,434.44 in restitution, to forfeit $1,102,725.96 and to pay a $30,000 fine.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-new-york-national-sales-director-sentenced-three-years-prison-kickback-scheme