"Once the COVID-19 pandemic began, Licata exploited patients’ fears of COVID-19 by bundling COVID-19 tests with more expensive, medically unnecessary testing, including respiratory pathogen panel testing and, at times, genetic testing for cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, obesity, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and dementia. In total, Licata caused his laboratory to submit over $6.9 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare for these medically unnecessary tests."
"Since its inception in March 2007, the Health Care Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 15 strike forces operating in 24 federal districts, has charged more than 4,600 defendants who have collectively billed federal health care programs and private insurers for approximately $23 billion."
I've been dropping pills lately about "you know I bet those shadying looking testing places in parking lots and malls are just selling off people's personal data and sending them fake test results. After all how would you know?"
People have been falsely imprisoned for years due to faulty dna testing. If they can't make that leap in logic from lazy asshole lab worker to greedy piece of shit lab worker then they can't be saved imo.
..."money makes the world go round"....
Ouch.
Prison or a rope. Whoever did that must die for it.