A Maryland man is facing charges over a scheme for tens of millions of dollars in healthcare fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marc Aaron Potash, 57, of Rockville, faces seven counts of healthcare fraud connected to as much as $100 million in fake claims to Medicare, Medicaid, the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program and other insurers. Potash is also charged with five counts of conducting transactions in criminally derived proceeds, according to a news release.
According to the indictment, between 2022 and May 2026, Potash and a company located in Gaithersburg called Tiero, schemed to get money through false claims to insurers claiming they were a COVID-19 testing facility with an in-house lab…