Man Pleads Guilty To Role In $4.6M Scheme Involving Kickbacks For Genetic Testing

(May 14, 2020, 10:51 AM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — A Florida man pleaded guilty to counts of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to receive kickbacks in federal court in New Jersey on May 6 for his role in a scheme that resulted in Medicare paying $4.6 million for unnecessary genetic testing that was ordered by a doctor who was not licensed to practice medicine in the state (United States v. Matthew S. Ellis, et al., No. 19cr693, D. N.J.)....