Department of Justice Charges Two Men in Alleged $227,000,000 Medicare Scam

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging two men with running 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 medical labs that submitted fake Medicare claims for COVID-19 test kit reimbursement that were allegedly never provided to beneficiaries. As alleged in court documents, the defendants hired foreign nationals as owners of the labs...