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California Man Convicted in $4 Million Medicare Fraud
**DETROIT, MI** – A federal jury convicted a man from California for defrauding Medicare of over $4 million through fraudulent urine drug testing claims. Sherif Khalil, 50, of Redondo Beach, was found guilty of submitting claims for tests that were not requested by doctors.
Khalil owned Spectra Clinical Labs, a toxicology lab in Gardena, California, and was involved in a scheme where he paid marketers for obtaining expensive drug test orders from doctors. The payments were disguised by channeling them through marketing companies under Khalil’s control.
Medicare paid out over $4 million for these unnecessary tests, resulting from the illegal kickbacks. Khalil faces sentencing on August 7, with potential penalties of up to 20 years for health care fraud and five years for conspiracy related charges.
The case was announced by officials from the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Trial Attorneys prosecuted the case as part of the Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program.
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