In September 2026, Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a former rheumatologist from Mission, Texas, is scheduled to be released from federal prison after serving his sentence for healthcare fraud.

What makes this moment devastating for families is not just his release — it is what he was never held criminally accountable for.

He was charged for fraud.

He was not charged for the medical harm inflicted on patients.

For more than two decades, patients testified that they were falsely diagnosed with lifelong, incurable diseases and subjected to toxic, unnecessary treatments. Many reported catastrophic physical and neurological injuries that permanently altered their lives.

These injuries were never meaningfully addressed in the charges.

🚨 If you or someone you know was treated by Jorge Zamora-Quezada and suffered harm, your voice is critical. By using the link below to share where you are from (no exact address required), you help document the true scale of impact and show how widespread the damage was. This information allows families, advocates, and policymakers to understand just how many lives were affected and where accountability and reform are needed most. Every entry helps ensure these stories are seen, counted, and never ignored again.

👉🏽 Patient Registry

 

WHY THIS PETITION EXISTS:

This petition exists because medical harm was excluded from accountability.

One of the clearest examples is Miranda Hinojosa.

Miranda is not a statistic.

She is a young woman whose life was permanently altered after being prescribed medication she did not need. According to her family, those treatments caused severe and lasting damage to her central nervous system.

To this day, Miranda continues to experience serious health complications that require frequent hospital visits. Her life has been defined by ongoing medical instability, pain, and uncertainty — consequences that did not appear in sentencing calculations.

Her mother, like many families, watched a courtroom focus on money while the human damage was left legally unaddressed.

Miranda’s story represents countless others whose suffering never made it into the charges.

 

THE CORE INJUSTICE:

This case exposed a critical failure in how our systems respond to healthcare abuse:

Financial crimes were prosecuted
Documented bodily injury was not
Permanent neurological and physical harm was treated as collateral, not criminal
 

The result is a legal outcome where release from prison is framed as justice, even though the harm to patients continues indefinitely.

This is not about vengeance.

This is about truth, acknowledgment, and systemic accountability.

WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR:
 

We, the undersigned, call for the following actions:

1️⃣ A formal civil investigation into patient harm

To examine whether civil remedies, restitution, or asset recovery are warranted for victims whose injuries were never addressed.

2️⃣ A state-level medical harm review

Including a public findings report documenting patient injuries linked to unnecessary or harmful treatments.

3️⃣ Permanent prohibition from medical-related roles
To ensure this individual can never again participate in healthcare, consulting, teaching, or advisory capacities.

4️⃣ Official recognition of victim impact
 A public acknowledgment that this case involved medical harm, not solely financial fraud.

5️⃣ Legislative reform
To require enhanced accountability and sentencing consideration when healthcare fraud results in bodily injury, neurological damage, or permanent disability.

WHY THIS MATTERS:
If the system only responds when money is stolen —

but remains silent when bodies are damaged —

then justice is incomplete.

Victims like Miranda Hinojosa live with consequences that do not end with a prison sentence. Families carry trauma that has no expiration date.

Release from custody does not erase harm.

And accountability should not end where paperwork does.

 

OUR MESSAGE
This petition is not an attack.

It is a call to acknowledge harm, document truth, and prevent repetition.

Because accountability is not the same as justice —

and for these families, justice has not yet happened.