Man Convicted for COVID Testing Scheme

Joseph Rodriguez, who was the vice president of a testing laboratory and owned and operated marketing company Phoenix Health, was convicted for his role in a fraud scheme that took advantage of patients who wanted COVID-19 tests during the pandemic. When those patients signed up to receive just swab and antibody tests at drive-through testing events, they were, in addition to the COVID-19 tests they wanted, subjected to tens or even hundreds of unnecessary blood tests that they did not want or need and that no doctor ordered. Read a story from RegTechTimes and a Department of Justice press release.

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