Oklahoma chiropractor gets 14 years for $30 million health care fraud scheme

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A federal jury conviction following a 12-day trial has resulted in a 14-year prison sentence for an Oklahoma DME company owner. The case illustrates how telemedicine networks, shell marketing firms and unenrolled billing entities were combined to extract payments from federal health programs serving seniors, service members and veterans.

• Loftis was sentenced to 14 years in prison after a 12-day jury trial that ended in July 2026.
• Loftis and co-conspirators submitted over $30 million in false and fraudulent claims and were paid over $8 million.
• Loftis paid over a million dollars in illegal kickbacks, including through a shell marketing company, to marketers, telemedicine companies and a call center.
• The scheme used sham doctors' orders generated by telemedicine providers who often never spoke to beneficiaries, including one case billing eight braces for a single beneficiary.
• Loftis was ordered to pay over $8 million in restitution and to forfeit over $560,000.

Executive summary

The Justice Department announced that Dr. Mark Loftis, 39, of Cushing, Oklahoma, a chiropractor and business owner, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in a scheme that attempted to defraud Medicare, TRICARE and CHAMPVA of over…

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