Minal Patel, owner of LabSolutions LLC, has been convicted on multiple counts for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare through the submission of more than $463 million in unnecessary patient tests, according to the Department of Justice Wednesday.
Patel allegedly paid kickbacks to patient brokers to obtain signed doctors’ orders authorizing cancer genetic tests, said the agency.
He has been convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, three counts of health care fraud, one count of conspiracy to defraud the US and to pay and receive illegal kickbacks, four counts of paying ...