Two Charged in COVID, Behavioral Health Test Schemes

A COVID-19 test kit sits on a table.

As part of the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, Amirali Bhimani was charged with participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare out of approximately $240 million in reimbursements for over-the-counter COVID-19 test kits that were either never provided or never requested by Medicare beneficiaries. Bhimani allegedly sold Medicare beneficiary information to laboratories so they could bill Medicare for purportedly providing the beneficiaries with COVID-19 test kits. Bhimani and others provided one or more of the laboratories with fake recordings of phone calls in which the Medicare beneficiaries purportedly agreed to receive the test kits. The source of the recordings allegedly informed Bhimani that they were generated using artificial intelligence. Another defendant, Daniel Robinson, was charged in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud Illinois Medicaid through the submission of fraudulent claims for behavioral health counseling and therapy services that were never provided. Read a story from NCTV17 and a Department of Justice press release.

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