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Over a long career I built and held interests in more than two hundred healthcare, biotech, and acute-care companies, including ventures that became publicly traded. One slice of consulting work, physician introductions to a Dallas hospital, landed me inside a twenty-one-defendant federal indictment. I pled guilty, paid the three million dollars in restitution in full, and served the criminal sentence. Every criminal and civil case ever brought has been settled, dismissed, dropped, or fully served. Nothing is pending in court.
I do carry one continuing federal administrative consequence, an OIG LEIE healthcare-program exclusion effective July 20, 2020, disclosed at the foot of this page. I am back to work, this time in a seat where my operating background helps lawyers and clients rather than my own ventures. I am Jewish, born and raised in Dallas, and I spend most of my non-work time mentoring younger people in business and in the practice of law.
I came home and funded the first cycles of the Andrew Hillman Scholarship for Entrepreneurs and the Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech on the day of my release, out of my own savings. Both run as annual one-thousand-dollar awards.
I do not ask anyone to look past the case. I ask that anyone evaluating me look at the complete record. That is what this page is.
Citation. United States v. Beauchamp et al., No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.). Indictment returned by the grand jury on November 16, 2016 and unsealed on the government's motion of December 1, 2016. Twenty-one defendants named.
The work that was at issue. The prosecution covered conduct connected to two facilities, Forest Park Medical Center and NextHealth. I never owned, controlled, or was employed by Forest Park Medical Center or any of its hospitals. My company, Hospital Business Concepts, did consulting work for hospitals — restructuring projects and physician recruitment. We worked with Vista Hospital of Dallas (publicly traded on Nasdaq as DYII) on a HIH project and on bringing local talent to Garland for elective spine, pain, and weight-loss surgery. We also worked on the turnaround of a former HealthSouth facility in San Antonio that became Inova / Victory Healthcare, a business I did own part of and helped grow into a network of public and private hospitals built around quality and ethics.
Forest Park's owners were physicians who were having trouble attracting other doctors. Our paid work for them, physician introductions, was a small piece of the consulting business and we did not consider it a long active engagement. The government's theory alleged a conspiracy window running from early 2008 through January 2013, and the plea reflects conduct within that window.
NextHealth. The government alleged that money I earned from Forest Park was used to start NextHealth, which had been operating for years. Before the conduct that led to the prosecution, I had terminated and separated from the partners and employees of the prior business, and the company was renamed to put distance from their overt acts. After the government's cooperation with those individuals, they were indicted in two separate cases in the Northern District of Texas. That history was part of what the Forest Park plea covered.
The 2005 indictment, dismissed. Years earlier, the government had brought United States v. Hillman, No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.), in which I was named as a defendant along with a co-defendant and Alpha Treatment Centers, Inc. Alpha Treatment Centers pled guilty to one conspiracy count and was sentenced in January 2008 to one year of probation and one hundred thousand dollars in restitution; the Fifth Circuit affirmed in December 2008. The charges against me personally were dismissed on the government's own unopposed motion on September 21, 2006.
Voluntary disclosure. Before charges in the Forest Park matter, I voluntarily reported what I knew about Forest Park to the former U.S. Attorney in my district, with my personal lawyer present. That voluntary disclosure was later used against me by the government, and the lawyer who sat with me at the meeting did not, in my view, handle the conflict the way he should have once another of his clients was implicated by what I reported.
The numbers on the government's chart. The conspiracy chart in this case showed one hundred fifty thousand dollars and forty thousand dollars in payments to the Hillman / Narosov consulting company during the alleged window. Those are the gross figures on the government's own chart; net to me personally after staff, commissions, and overhead was substantially less. For context, the Forest Park indictment named twenty-one defendants and alleged a two-hundred-million-dollar scheme with approximately forty million dollars in kickbacks. The hospital owners, managers, and highest-paid surgeons drew the long sentences. I pled guilty, I do not minimize what I did, and the dollar figures are simply on the record.
Plea. Pled guilty in October 2018 to conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to pay and receive healthcare bribes, both connected to the Forest Park Medical Center and NextHealth matters.
Cooperation. Following the plea I cooperated extensively with federal investigators. The sentencing court weighed the cooperation in imposing a sentence well below the fifteen-year statutory maximum on the underlying charges. The cooperation contributed to additional criminal cases brought in the Northern District of Texas.
Sentence and restitution. Sentenced in December 2019 to sixty-six months in federal custody and three million dollars in restitution. Restitution paid in full. BOP register number 33631-177. Self-surrendered to the FBI Dallas field office at One Justice Way. First taken into federal custody on July 19, 2018 in connection with a separate medical-cannabis matter (since dismissed) and remained in custody through sentencing — roughly eighteen months in a maximum-security state administrative facility under federal hold, then just under six months in a federal camp. Approximately one month was in solitary confinement related to COVID protocols immediately before release. Released from BOP custody on or before May 11, 2022 per the BOP inmate locator. No supervised release. No probation. No continuing criminal conditions.
Related civil actions, all resolved without judgment against me. United States ex rel. Unnamed Relators v. U.S. Health Group, Inc., et al., No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.), FCA qui tam filed 2013, Government Notice of Declination filed December 12, 2014 under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(4)(B), resolved without judgment. United Health Care Services, Inc. and UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company v. Next Health, LLC, et al., No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.), settled, plaintiffs dismissed me on August 18, 2020 under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i). United States ex rel. Proctor v. Next Health LLC et al., No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.), I was dismissed prior to conclusion; the case terminated March 6, 2026 with a default judgment of approximately four hundred forty-eight point five million dollars entered against Next Health, LLC as the corporate entity.
Separate medical-cannabis indictment, dismissed. United States v. Hillman, Narosov, and Waldvogel, No. 3:18-cr-00401 (N.D. Tex.). Background: I owned Valley Herbal Healing Center, a licensed medical-cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles, which I later sold to its employees on owner financing — a sale I never collected on. The government alleged the dispensary's product was being shipped to Dallas. Originating from sealed complaint No. 3:18-mj-00491 filed July 17, 2018; arrest warrant executed July 19, 2018; initial appearance July 20, 2018; probable cause and detention ordered July 24, 2018; Waldvogel added July 27, 2018; indictment filed August 7, 2018 (one count); Not Guilty plea at arraignment August 15, 2018; case assigned to Judge Karen Gren Scholer. The court dismissed the indictment as to Mr. Narosov and me on April 18, 2019 on the government's own motion. I never entered a guilty plea in this case.
Authoritative sources. The Forest Park case is documented at the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas at justice.gov/usao-ndtx; the federal docket at CourtListener; contemporaneous coverage in The Dallas Morning News and D Magazine.
Plea
Guilty
October 2018
Sentence
66 months
December 2019
Restitution
$3 million
Paid in full
The complete government record.
Across two decades the federal government brought or filed multiple actions naming me. Setting them out in full here, with outcomes, because the complete record is more useful than any portion of it. Each citation is verifiable on the public docket.
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2005
United States v. Hillman
No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.)Charges dismissed.
Charges against Andrew Hillman dismissed on the government's own unopposed motion on September 21, 2006. The co-defendant entity, Alpha Treatment Centers, Inc., pled guilty to one count and was sentenced to one year probation and one hundred thousand dollars in restitution, affirmed by the Fifth Circuit in December 2008.
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2013
U.S. ex rel. Unnamed Relators v. U.S. Health Group
No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.)Government declined to intervene.
False Claims Act qui tam filed under seal in 2013. The United States filed its Notice of Declination on December 12, 2014 under 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(4)(B). Resolved without judgment against me.
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2016
United States v. Beauchamp et al.
No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.)Guilty plea with substantial cooperation.
The Forest Park matter. Pled guilty October 2018. Sentenced December 2019 to 66 months and three million dollars in restitution. Cooperated extensively with federal investigators. Released 2020. Restitution paid in full.
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2017
UnitedHealthcare v. Next Health
No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.)Settled. Dismissed without judgment.
Plaintiffs dismissed me August 18, 2020 under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i). No judgment against me individually.
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2018
United States v. Hillman
No. 3:18-cr-00401 (N.D. Tex.)Indictment dismissed.
Separate matter. Dismissed on the government's own motion on April 18, 2019.
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2017
U.S. ex rel. Proctor v. Next Health
No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.)Dismissed before judgment.
I was dismissed from the case prior to its conclusion. The case terminated March 6, 2026 with a default judgment against Next Health, LLC as the corporate entity. No judgment against me individually.
The Forest Park plea is the matter that produced the federal sentence I served. I do not minimize it. The complete record is presented so anyone evaluating me sees what the government did across two decades, in full.
Hillman v. Ringleader Digital, Inc., No. 1:10-cv-08315 (S.D.N.Y., Judge Denise L. Cote). I was a named class representative in a federal class action against Ringleader Digital and, by consolidation and addition, GO2 Media, Inc., Travel Channel, LLC, and Whitepages, Inc. The case alleged that the defendants had used HTML5 device-identifier "respawning" — a successor to Flash-cookie respawning — to track mobile users' online activity without consent, in violation of federal computer-fraud and privacy laws. The case was consolidated with the related Aughenbaugh action on March 21, 2011.
The Court approved a class-wide settlement under which Ringleader Digital agreed to work with the Mobile Marketing Association on industry tracking standards, delete data collected from users who had opted out, improve opt-out disclosures, and pay thirty thousand dollars to the named plaintiffs and six hundred seventy thousand dollars in class counsel fees. The case is cited in the privacy bar alongside In re Clearspring Flash Cookie Litigation and In re Quantcast Advertising Cookie Litigation as one of the early class settlements that drove industry-side change on covert mobile-device tracking.
I came home and got back to work. That is the chapter that matters now.
The Record
Day to day, I work in the practice of law as a senior paralegal at a Dallas law firm, alongside expert-witness and consulting engagements. The senior paralegal role is real and active — my primary day job, not a title on a bio.
The reason this seat fits is straightforward: most experts on hospital operations, healthcare finance, and physician-aligned ventures have studied the industry; I built inside it for decades. The matters are what you would expect from that seat: case workup, investigation, document review, witness development, expert-side analysis. I also take consulting and expert-witness engagements directly when the subject matter fits my background in hospital operations, healthcare finance, and physician-aligned ventures.
Background: over the course of my career I have owned or held interests in more than two hundred healthcare, biotech, and acute-care companies, including ventures that were or became publicly traded on Nasdaq. Many were sold to public and private acquirers. That portfolio is the operating and finance background I bring to expert-witness and consulting work today. I am also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Black Belt trainer, which I draw on for process-analysis and operational-quality questions in matters where that lens is useful.
For the long-form professional history, see linkedin.com/in/andrew-hillman-dallas.
I launched the scholarship and the grant on the day of my release, funded out of my own pocket, as a deliberate first act on the way out. The point was to put something in the world for someone else before I did anything else for myself. Both programs were launched in 2020 on my release, funded from personal savings, each carrying an annual award of one thousand dollars.
Beyond the scholarship and the grant, I mentor younger people in business, healthcare, and the practice of law. Most of that mentoring is unpaid; a smaller number of relationships are paid consulting engagements when the subject matter fits.
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Andrew Hillman Scholarship for Entrepreneurs
An award for undergraduate students across the United States who demonstrate entrepreneurial vision and business ambition. Open to students at any accredited college or university nationwide. Announced via PR Newswire and covered by Yahoo Finance.
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Andrew Hillman Grant for Biotech
An award recognizing emerging undergraduate talent in biotechnology, regenerative medicine, and life sciences. The 2026 application cycle is open. Covered by Yahoo Finance and Newsfile Corp at launch.
Visit programCommunity work in Dallas.
My son Ashton and I have participated in the annual KidSwing for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, a youth-run golf tournament benefiting the hospital's pediatric orthopedic care. KidSwing has raised more than two million dollars for the hospital since its founding in 2003. Texas Scottish Rite Hospital provides orthopedic care to Texas children at no charge to patient families.
My family contributed to the funding of an innovation laboratory at the Lamplighter School in Dallas, where our children attended. The laboratory supports robotics and STEM education for the school's student body.
I coach youth soccer. I volunteer at Temple Emanu-El. I mentor younger people in business and healthcare without a fee. Most Saturdays involve one of my kids, a Dallas sports team, a bike ride, or all three.
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. I grew up in my family's auto-parts business, Midway Auto Supply, founded in Dallas in 1959 by my grandfather Henry B. Levine. The work ethic, customer-service standards, and operating instincts I picked up on that shop floor stayed with me through every venture afterward. My grandmother Fannie Bella Levine threw a ceremonial first pitch at old Arlington Stadium for the Texas Rangers. My mother Beverly grew up in that household and raised me in it. When my daughter was born, my wife Erin and I named her Chloe Bella. The Bella is for Fannie.
I attended Dallas College and then the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. My working life has been spent within thirty miles of where I went to school. For a stretch of years I also kept a part-time residence in Dorado, Puerto Rico, but Dallas has always been home.
- 2005United States v. Hillman, No. 3:05-cr-00202 (N.D. Tex.). Indicted with Alpha Treatment Centers, Inc. and a co-defendant.
- 2006September 21, 2006: charges against me personally dismissed on the government's own unopposed motion. Alpha Treatment Centers later pled guilty (January 2008, one year probation, $100,000 restitution; affirmed Fifth Circuit December 2008).
- 2010Filed Hillman v. Ringleader Digital, Inc., No. 1:10-cv-08315 (S.D.N.Y., J. Cote) as named class representative. Class-wide settlement approved on industry-side privacy reform and class compensation.
- 2013U.S. ex rel. Unnamed Relators v. U.S. Health Group, Inc., No. 3:13-CV-0701-P (N.D. Tex.). FCA qui tam filed under seal.
- 2014December 12, 2014: United States files Notice of Declination. Matter resolved without judgment against me.
- 2016November 16, 2016: Forest Park grand jury returns indictment under seal, No. 3:16-CR-0516-D (N.D. Tex.). December 1, 2016: government's motion to unseal granted. Twenty-one defendants named.
- 2017UnitedHealthcare files No. 3:17-cv-00243-E-BT (N.D. Tex.). Proctor qui tam, No. 4:17-cv-00169 (E.D. Tex.), also filed this year.
- 2018July 17: federal cannabis complaint sealed (No. 3:18-mj-00491). July 19: arrest warrant executed; taken into custody. July 20: initial appearance (Mag. J. Toliver). July 24: probable cause and detention (Mag. J. Horan). August 7: cannabis indictment filed (No. 3:18-cr-00401). August 15: Not Guilty plea at arraignment (J. Scholer). October 2018: pled guilty in the Forest Park case.
- 2019April 18: cannabis indictment dismissed on government's motion as to Narosov and me (J. Scholer). December 2019: sentenced in Forest Park case, sixty-six months federal plus $3 million restitution.
- 2020July 20: OIG places me on the LEIE under §1128(a)(3). August 18: UnitedHealthcare settles and dismisses me under Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i). Scholarship and Grant launched on release, funded from personal savings.
- 2022On or before May 11, 2022: released from BOP custody per BOP inmate locator. Fully discharged — no supervised release, no probation, no continuing conditions.
- 2025July 20: OIG LEIE five-year statutory minimum expires. Reinstatement application eligibility begins; application intended.
- 2026March 6: Proctor qui tam terminated with default judgment of approximately $448.5 million against Next Health, LLC as entity (I was previously dismissed). Site of record consolidated.
Current status: every criminal and civil case listed above has been settled, dismissed, dropped, or fully served. Nothing is pending in court. Restitution paid in full. One continuing federal administrative consequence remains — the OIG LEIE healthcare-program exclusion noted in the disclosures.
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