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Citizen Indicted for $2.7M Telehealth Scheme Friday, November 21, 2025 Share Facebook X LinkedIn Email For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Florida returned an indictment Wednesday charging a U.K. citizen for his role in a conspiracy to submit fraudulent claims for telehealth services associated with prescriptions for genetic testing and for causing the submission of false Medicare enrollment documents.the charging documents state, Marek Rex Vernon Harrison, 61, a U.K. In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with
the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, are taking steps to hold providers accountable for their involvement in health care fraud schemes. In total, CTD submitted more than $2.7 million in false and fraudulent claims for telehealth services to Medicare, and Medicare paid over $600,000 on those claims.As further alleged, part of the scheme involved falsifying Medicare enrollment documents submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to conceal Harrison’s role in CTD. At Harrison’s direction, CTD allegedly submitted Medicare enrollment forms falsely
listing other individuals as owners and/or managers and concealing Harrison’s 2019 bank fraud conviction.Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Kehoe for the Middle District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge Matthew Fodor of the FBI’s Tampa Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Douglas DePodesta of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office; and Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Christian J. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) made the announcement.FBI and HHS-OIG are investigating the case.Acting Assistant Chief Catherine Wagner and Trial Attorney Miriam Glaser Dauermann of the Justice Department’s Fraud Section are prosecuting