KHALID AHMED SATARY

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Khalid Ahmed Satary is wanted for his alleged involvement in a $547 million Health Care Fraud Conspiracy. Between 2016 and 2019, Satary owned and operated several diagnostic testing laboratories throughout the United States which allegedly billed the Medicare Program for expensive and medically unnecessary genetic tests. Satary allegedly conspired with dozens of patient recruiters, telemarketing call centers, and telemedicine companies to utilize deceptive marketing campaigns and illegal kickbacks and bribes to generate cancer genetic test samples that reimbursed between $10,000 to $20,000 per sample. Through his laboratories, Satary billed Medicare for over $547 million. He also allegedly paid millions of dollars of illegal kickbacks and bribes to doctors and patient recruiters.

On September 26, 2019, Satary was indicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. He was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks and bribes, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.

Satary was released on bond with conditions to not work in the health care field. While on bond, Satary allegedly conspired with Houston-based laboratories in Texas to submit fraudulent genetic testing claims to Medicare. On November 23, 2022, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Satary in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, for pre-trial release violation.