A 68-year-old Mission doctor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison after intentionally misdiagnosing 10,000 patients for profit.

However, he may not spend more than three years in jail due to credit he’s receiving for time served.

As previously reported, Jorge Zamora-Quezada was found guilty in 2020 in connection with a scheme where he filed $240 million in fraudulent claims to healthcare programs to “treat”  the patients with medications they didn’t need.

Zamora-Quezada has been in federal custody since his 2018 arrest.

Zamora-Quezada must also forfeit over $28 million, and multiple real estate properties and a jet he owned.

Former patients of Zamora-Quezada were in the federal courtroom during the sentencing, and expressed disbelief.

“We lost a lot, that's something we're never going to get back,” Georgina Escobar said. “He diagnosed me with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, arthritis, and he put me on 13 different medications.”

One of the drugs that Zamora-Quezada prescribed to Escobar was the chemotherapy drug methotrexate, she said.

The drugs broke down her immune system, organs, hair and teeth, Escobar said. 

“I'm now epileptic. [I have] PTSD, anxiety, depression, the list goes on,” Escobar said.

Former patient Fernando Lopez also spoke with Channel 5 News following the sentencing.

"For all of this, just to dwindle down to 10 years, it's a slap in the hand," Lopez said.

U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Zamora-Quezada, and said the sentence was limited by a federal statute that made 10 years the maximum sentence.

Crane said Zamora-Quezada will likely serve his sentence in a white collar detention camp, and will be eligible for a 15% reduction of his sentence for good behavior.

“We're just a shell of ourselves, “Escobar said. “We're not going to get back what he took from us. Ten years is nothing, he should have had longer for what we did to us... He'll continue his life when we get out of prison, but what about us?"

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