Man Pleads to Buying Numbers

Corey Alston pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States and to illegally purchasing Medicare beneficiary identification numbers in connection with a scheme to bill Medicare for COVID-19 test kits. For seven months, Alston and others, through companies they owned and controlled, submitted over $8.4 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare that were ineligible for reimbursement. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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