BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS, A New York man has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role in a Medicare kickback scheme involving medically unnecessary brain scans, officials announced.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 60-year-old David Fuhrmann of Port Jefferson Station, New York, was sentenced to three years in prison followed by one year of supervised release. U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton also ordered Fuhrmann to pay $27,225,434.44 in restitution, forfeit $1,102,725.96 and pay a $30,000 fine.
In April 2025, Fuhrmann pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the federal anti-kickback statute.
Federal prosecutors said that from June 2013 through at least September 2020, Fuhrmann conspired with others, including managers of a mobile medical diagnostics company, to pay kickbacks to doctors in exchange for ordering transcranial doppler (TCD) scans. TCD scans measure blood flow in parts of the brain.
According to court documents, doctors were paid in cash or by check based on the number of scans they ordered. To conceal the arrangement, the conspirators created sham rental and administrative service agreements that falsely suggested the payments were for legitimate office space and administrative support rather than tied to referral volume.
Authorities said the scheme resulted in approximately $70.6 million in fraudulent Medicare billings, with Medicare paying about $27.2 million on those claims.
The case was investigated by multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, the Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.
The prosecution was handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
