​Owner of Brookline, Waltham Physical Therapy Clinics Indicted

WALTHAM, MA — The former owner of a physical therapy clinics in Waltham and Brookline, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on health care fraud charges.

According to charging documents between 2014 and 2018, Chang Goo Yoon, 59, billed patients for non-existent physical therapy appointments, including approximately $200,000 in claims billed on dates when Yoon was traveling in South Korea, Los Angeles and Toronto.

Prosecutors also accuse him of billing $60,000 in claims on dates when he was gambling at casinos including the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J., MGM Springfield and Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I. Additionally, Yoon submitted approximately $30,000 in physical therapy claims for himself after three automobile accidents.

According to the indictment, most of those claims falsely listed one of Yoon’s employees as the servicing physical therapist. The remaining claims allegedly listed Yoon as both the patient and the servicing physical therapist.

Yoon, a South Korean national living in Queens, N.Y., was indicted on two counts of health care fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, the United States Attorney's office said Tuesday. Yoon was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in February.

If he's convicted on health care fraud he could serve up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. If he's convicted of aggravated identity theft, he faces a two-year sentence to be served consecutively to any other sentence imposed.

Yoon had a practice on Washington Street in Brookline and on Moody Street in Waltham.