A call center owner and employee pleaded guilty to their roles in a $67 million Medicare fraud scheme.
Daniel Carver, 36, of Boca Raton, Fla., owned and managed call centers he used to conduct deceptive telemarketing campaigns targeting Medicare beneficiaries to solicit them for unnecessary genetic testing and durable medical equipment, according to a July 17 Justice Department news release.
Louis Carver, 32, Delray Beach, worked at the call centers and acted as a straw owner for a lab that submitted false genetic testing claims, according to the release.
The men and their co-conspirators allegedly paid kickbacks and bribes to telemedicine companies in exchange for completed physicians' orders, sold physicians' orders to labs and durable medical equipment companies in exchange for kickbacks, forged physicians' and patients' signatures and tricked medical providers into ordering unnecessary testing, according to the release.
Five other defendants have previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the scheme, according to the release.