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Maryland Man Convicted of $18.7M Medicare Fraud for Respiratory Testing Scheme Targeting Nursing Homes

A federal jury in the District of Maryland convicted a laboratory owner yesterday for taking advantage of nursing homes that needed COVID-19 tests during the pandemic and fraudulently billing Medicare more than $18 million for other expensive respiratory tests that nursing home residents did not need, physicians did not order, and, in many cases, were never performed.

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  • Date:Oct. 20, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
  • Agency:U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland
  • Enforcement Types:
    • COVID-19,
    • Criminal and Civil Actions