Gonzales was sentenced to 30 months for a health-care kickback conspiracy. A $49 million restitution order is the judgment, not a new count.

A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment. A restitution order of more than $49 million is part of that judgment, not a new count. Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Eskridge, in the Southern District of Texas, sentenced Henry Allen Gonzales, 53, of Willis, Texas, to 30 months in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release after a June 30, 2022 guilty plea to conspiring to pay and receive health care kickbacks. The kickback conspiracy he admitted is the conduct behind that sentence.

Gonzales owned and operated Option 1 Pain & Rehab Clinic, formerly Direct Medical Clinic. He received more than $2 million in kickbacks from Rayford ACP Pharmacy for directing prescriptions for expensive compounded medications. He also paid marketers to recruit Department of Labor Office of Workers' Compensation Programs claimants and bribed doctors to sign prescriptions. He later opened Farmacia and continued billing. From 2015 through 2018, Rayford ACP Pharmacy and Farmacia received about $49,014,183.03 in DOL-OWCP claims tied to medically unnecessary compounded medications, as the Department of Justice stated. Those facts are the admitted conduct behind the June 30, 2022 plea. They are not a new count added when the court imposed sentence.

The court ordered him to pay more than $49 million in restitution to DOL-OWCP. Restitution is part of the judgment. It is not a new accusation. He was permitted to remain free on bond until he voluntarily surrenders to a Bureau of Prisons facility to be designated. Bond until a designated surrender is release status. It is not a dismissal of the sentence. Related coverage noted that Tronown Thomas, a Rayford ACP pharmacist, was convicted on July 11, 2026, of conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks after a trial. That conviction is a related file. The Gonzales sentence was reported in coverage dated around Sept. 18–22, 2026.