“Once the COVID-19 pandemic began, Licata exploited patients’ fear of COVID-19 by bundling COVID-19 tests with more expensive, medically unnecessary testing,” prosecutors wrote.
The owner of a Florida laboratory has pleaded guilty to a $7 million Medicare fraud scheme in which he paid kickbacks to brokers for telemedicine firms and doctors to prescribe expensive but unnecessary genetic testing along with low-cost COVID-19 tests for thousands of patients.
Federal prosecutors say Licata began the scheme in 2018 in a different form, but kicked it into high gear when the coronavirus pandemic struck and continued submitting fraudulent claims into 2021. — Prosecutors wrote in the case against Christopher Licata
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