2 Charged In $227 Million COVID Test Medicare Fraud Scheme: Authorities

Men charged in $136M Medicare fraud scheme for COVID tests

Federal authorities charge Syed Mehdi Hussain and Syed Murtuza Kablazada with health care fraud, accusing them of defrauding Medicare out of $136 million through a scheme involving COVID-19 tests that were neither wanted nor received.

2 Charged In $227 Million COVID Test Medicare Fraud Scheme: Authorities

2 Charged In $227 Million COVID Test Medicare Fraud Scheme: DOJ - Arlington Heights, IL - Participants in the scheme submitted claims for people who had not requested test kits, some of whom were dead, officials said.