Two Gwinnett County men are headed to prison for their roles in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary genetic testing.
Federal investigators say the scheme involved marketers posing as door-to-door salespeople or attending health fairs to collect DNA samples. Authorities say those samples were used to bill Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies for testing that was not needed.
The Justice Department says the operation involved sham contracts, kickbacks, and bribes, with laboratories in multiple states used to submit fraudulent claims totaling more than a half-billion dollars…