Clinic Owner Must Pay $6 Million for Defrauding Federal Program

The owner of a pair of physical therapy clinics is going to prison for seven years and will have to pay $6 million in restitution for a scheme to defraud a health-care benefit program that covers federal employees.

Rafael Enrique Rodriguez was the owner and operator of 210 Workers LLC, which provided physical therapy and rehabilitation services in San Antonio, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

A jury convicted him in June on six counts of health-care fraud, five counts of wire fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Western District of Texas ...