A claim for a COVID test can name a lab, a date and a doctor, and none of it has to be real. That is what federal prosecutors in Maryland say happened with at-home COVID tests billed to Medicare, Medicaid and the federal employees’ health plan. A grand jury in Greenbelt has indicted Marc Aaron Potash, 57, of Rockville, in a scheme federal officials put at more than $100 million.
The indictment, returned October 9, is an accusation. Potash is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and no court has ruled on the charges.
A lab on paper, tests in the mail
Potash founded and runs Tiero, LLC, a company in Gaithersburg, Maryland, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. Prosecutors say that from January 2022 to May 2026 he and others billed insurers for at-home, self-administered COVID tests that were not what the claims described…