The pitch usually arrives one of two ways. A phone call offering a free cancer screening covered by Medicare, or a friendly table at a community health fair with a clipboard and a cheek swab kit. Neither looks like fraud, which is the point.
Federal prosecutors say that pattern generated $547 million in Medicare billing in a single scheme. Khalid Satary, 54, was arrested on July 20 by regional partners in the Middle East, found carrying a fake Mexican passport under a false name, and transferred into U.S. custody. He appeared in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia and had been a fugitive since December 2022.
