Man Pleads Guilty in COVID Test Kit Case

Kevin Karl Wills Jr. pleaded guilty to conspiring to receive kickbacks in return for referring Medicare beneficiaries for COVID-19 tests and for purchasing and selling Medicare beneficiary identification numbers. According to a plea agreement, Wills and a co-conspirator introduced marketers to medical service providers, and the marketers agreed to supply the providers with lists of Medicare beneficiaries and their identifying information. The providers then shipped COVID-19 tests to the beneficiaries and billed Medicare for the tests. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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