on the conspiracy charge as well as 10 counts of health care fraud, seven counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Prosecutors alleged Clampitt and three other defendants used private patient information — such as names, dates of birth and insurance subscriber identification numbers — to submit claims to insurers for COVID-19 testing that was never actually performed. The personal information was obtained through various clinics where one of the unspecified defendants worked as a contract lab technician, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
The fake labs submitted approximately $30 million in claims and were paid more than $7 million in reimbursements, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Cases are pending against the three other defendants: Terrance Barnard, William Paul Gray and Donn Hogg. “As the country struggled to cope with a devastating pandemic, this defendant conspired to swindle insurance providers out of millions of dollars,” U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton said in a written statement about Clampitt. “She exploited the healthcare system when it was at its most vulnerable, indirectly raising healthcare costs for everyday Americans.”
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