Key Takeaways
Kevin Curry of Frisco, Texas was convicted on September 24 of a $26 million fraud against TRICARE, the military health program.
Prosecutors say Curry billed for brain-stimulation therapy that patients did not need or never received, and paid more than $5.5 million in kickbacks.
TRICARE paid about $17 million on the false claims before the scheme was caught.
A federal jury in Texas convicted Kevin Curry, 64, of Frisco on September 24 in a $26 million scheme to defraud TRICARE, the health program for active-duty servicemembers, veterans, and their families, the Justice Department said.
Curry ran three clinics that billed for transcranial magnetic stimulation, a brain therapy, that was either medically unnecessary or never delivered. To keep the patients coming, he paid more than $5.5 million in kickbacks to recruiters. TRICARE paid roughly $17 million on the claims before the case caught up with him.
Prosecutors say Curry passed himself off as a doctor, used real physicians' credentials without their consent, and fabricated medical records to justify the bills. The proceeds went into luxury purchases, including a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck that cost more than $100,000.
The military angle is what sharpens this one. TRICARE money is taxpayer money routed through a program meant for people who served, and every fake claim came out of that pool.
None of this is new. What keeps repeating is the same structure, a provider inventing treatments a computer approves and a human never checks, until the total climbs into the millions. The pattern here is hard to ignore.
It lands the same week federal prosecutors closed a $500 million COVID test billing fraud, where a lab's chief operating officer pleaded guilty, part of a wider fraud push that has also reached crypto scams like a $16 million pig butchering case. Worth watching what Curry's sentence looks like.
People Also Ask
Who is Kevin Curry?
Kevin Curry, 64, of Frisco, Texas owned three clinics and was convicted on September 24, 2026 of a $26 million scheme to defraud the military's TRICARE health program.
What is TRICARE and who does it cover?
TRICARE is the US military health program covering active-duty servicemembers, veterans, and their families, funded with taxpayer money.
What treatment was at the center of the fraud?
Curry billed for transcranial magnetic stimulation, a brain-stimulation therapy, that prosecutors say was medically unnecessary or never actually provided.
How much did the scheme pay out?
TRICARE paid about $17 million on the false claims, and Curry paid more than $5.5 million in kickbacks to recruit patients.
Sources
US Department of Justice.