{"id":6155,"date":"2026-10-20T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/maryland-man-convicted-in-18-7m-medicare-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:32:56","slug":"maryland-man-convicted-in-18-7m-medicare-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/maryland-man-convicted-in-18-7m-medicare-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Man Convicted in $18.7M Medicare Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Federal jury finds laboratory owner guilty of six criminal counts after prosecutors establish that millions were billed for unauthorized respiratory tests involving nursing home residents. BALTIMORE, MD \u2013 October 20, 2026 (STL.News) A federal jury in Maryland has convicted a laboratory owner of orchestrating an $18.7 million Medicare fraud scheme that exploited nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, billing the federal health insurance program for expensive respiratory tests that physicians never ordered and, in numerous cases, were never performed. Patrick Britton-Harr, 42, of Annapolis, Maryland, was found guilty Monday, October 19, of five counts of health care fraud and<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/maryland-man-convicted-in-18-7m-medicare-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal jury finds laboratory owner guilty of six criminal counts after prosecutors establish that millions were billed for unauthorized respiratory tests involving nursing home residents. BALTIMORE, MD \u2013 October 20, 2026 (STL.News) A federal jury in Maryland has convicted a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}