A federal jury has convicted a 42-year-old Annapolis man of healthcare fraud and money laundering for fraudulently billing Medicare more than $18 million for unnecessary or unperformed laboratory tests during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, Patrick Britton-Harr, owner of Provista Health, fraudulently billed Medicare approximately $18.7 million for respiratory pathogen tests over a six-month period in 2020. Medicare paid more than $7.2 million of those claims.
Prosecutors said Britton-Harr offered COVID-19 testing services to nursing homes across the country before submitting claims for additional, expensive respiratory tests that physicians had not ordered and patients did not need…