Clinical Lab Co-Owner Gets 15 Months in Prison for Drug Testing Kickback Scheme
- January 30, 2025
Mohammed Kazim Ali was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay over $2.2 million in restitution to Medicaid and Medicare as well as a $75,000 fine for paying health care kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Gregory J. Haanstad announced January 24.
According to a press release, Ali and his co-defendant owned a clinical laboratory called Noah Associates. Beginning in 2017, they engaged in a three-year-long scheme to pay kickbacks to the owner of a Milwaukee substance use treatment clinic in exchange for referrals of Medicaid and Medicare patients for urine drug testing that was not ordered by any physician and was not medically necessary.