Ruthia He, founder and former CEO of Done Global, a San Francisco-based digital mental health company, was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $1 million for orchestrating a scheme that used the company’s telehealth platform to unlawfully distribute more than 37 million Adderall pills, according to a July 7 news release from the Justice Department.
Here are five things to know:
- David Brody, Done Global’s former clinical president, was sentenced separately to two years in prison and a $1 million fine.
- Prosecutors said the scheme defrauded insurers of more than $12 million by submitting false prior authorization requests to Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers.
- Clinicians were paid up to $60,000 a month to sign Adderall prescriptions, with initial visits capped at half the length of a standard exam and an auto-refill feature used to minimize follow-up appointments, according to court documents.
- A jury convicted Ms. He and Mr. Brody in November 2025 on charges including conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit health care fraud; Ms. He was also convicted of obstructing justice.
- The case, prosecuted by the Justice Department’s Health Care Fraud Unit in collaboration with the DEA, HHS Office of Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations and IRS Criminal Investigation, is the first sentencing announced since the Justice Department created the West Coast Strike Force, which covers the Northern District of California, Arizona and Nevada.
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