Coral Springs man charged in $73 million Medicare fraud scheme, investigators say

A Coral Springs man has been charged in a sweeping multi-million-dollar Medicare fraud takedown, Department of Justice officials announced Tuesday.

Investigators say that from February until August 2023, Jason Kashou and his alleged co-conspirators fraudulently billed the government and received kickbacks for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits that were shipped to patients who never requested them, according to a June 23 news release from the United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Texas.

Kashou, 40, a Coral Springs resident and owner of MCM Hustle, was paid $20,000 to provide patients’ names, Medicare identification numbers, and other identifying information to lab companies, investigators say…

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