The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has billed two men for implementing a $227 million Medicare scheme.
According to a new press release, Syed Murtuza Kablazada, 34, of Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Syed Mehdi Hussain, 32, of Carol Stream, Illinois, owned and operated a medical lab that owned and operated a medical lab that filed a fake Medicare claim for a re-waiver of the Covid-19 test kit.
As allegedly in court documents, the defendants hired foreigners as lab owners seeking fraudulent Medicare claims in their plans to flee the country after the lab began to be investigated.
Not only did the lab rarely provide beneficiaries with Covid-19 test kits, but the defendants allegedly paid to marketing companies to get the names of the hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries used in fraud.
Matthew R. Galeotti, the Department of Justice’s Criminal Director, was responsible for the alleged plan.
“As allegedly, the defendant used straw owners from multiple labs to raise fraudulent claims against Medicare for Covid-19 test kits in excess of $200 million.
Healthcare scams harm Americans by wasting taxpayer money and bypassing limited resources from those who need them the most. The criminal department will actively prosecute these crimes, keeping accountable to fraudsters, protecting victims and continuing to recover financial losses. ”
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