Feds Investigate COVID Test Kit Cases

Three rapid antigen test kits lined up on a bright green background.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating who bilked millions from Medicare by stealing the ID numbers of seniors in multiple states and ordering COVID-19 tests they didn’t want. Federal investigators are just beginning to uncover the breadth of the fraud, which involved hundreds of thousands of tests. Seniors and their families in at least 10 states have been targeted, Bloomberg Government found. Read a story from Bloomberg.

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