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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for
(CHICAGO) -- An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for his pop-up COVID testing company and allegedly lied about test results. Zishan Alvi, 44, was the co-owner of Laboratory Elite, headquartered in Chicago, which purported to offer two types of COVID-19 testing, PCR tests and 15-minute
An Illinois man was indicted for allegedly defrauding the U.S. government of almost $83 million in a COVID testing scheme and giving patients false negative test results.
Medicare spending on testing for the virus continued to increase in 2022 and is outpacing the two prior years.
Medicare's COVID-19 testing costs reached over $2 billion in 2022. Experts say financial incentives and a lack of regulation early in the pandemic led to fraud and overspending.