Health Care Fraud Sentence: Medicare Billing for Unperformed Lab Tests

Mohammed Asif, an Indian national, was sentenced to two years in prison for health care fraud related to the operation of American Labworks LLC, a diagnostic lab in Everett, Washington. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud by billing Medicare for COVID-19 and other respiratory illness tests that were never ordered or performed. The case highlights ongoing regulatory enforcement against fraudulent billing practices in the diagnostic testing sector, with implications for compliance monitoring and payer-provider oversight.