New Jersey resident Nisim Davydov has been charged in a COVID-19 health care fraud scheme, according to the latest enforcement action by the Justice Department.
The case alleges that Davydov, along with five others, participated in a scheme to defraud Medicare by paying illegal kickbacks and bribes of over $250,000 for laboratory tests for COVID-19 pathogen tests.
The alleged scheme involved Metpath, a clinical laboratory in Parsippany, New Jersey, which performed and billed Medicare for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Davydov and the other defendants allegedly received kickbacks and bribes for supplying thousands of COVID-19 diagnostic tests to Metpath.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney DeNae Thomas of the Health Care Fraud Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.
Davydov was charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, along with Abid Syed, Taquir Din, Tamer Mohamed, Abdul Rauf, and Tauquir Khan.
The exact date of the alleged crime is not specified in the source, but the charges were announced on April 20, 2022.
Current status: Nisim Davydov’s criminal complaint has been dismissed (link to dismissal order not provided).
No sentence or outcome has been reported.
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Key Facts
- State: New Jersey
- Category: Fraud & Financial Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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