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Government Actions 1

USA v Mohammed Kazim Ali
The following describes a government action that has been resolved by either a settlement or a decision by a court or administrative agency. If the matter is being appealed, it will be noted below.



The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that, on January 24, 2025, Mohammed Kazim Ali was sentenced to 15 months’ incarceration for paying healthcare kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.  Ali was also ordered to pay over $2.2 million in restitution to Medicaid and Medicare as well as a $75,000 fine.



Ali and his co-defendant, Justin Hanson, owned a Milwaukee-area clinical laboratory called Noah Associates.  According to court records, beginning in 2017, Ali and Hanson 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 performed by Noah Associates.  Ali and Hanson paid over $400,000 in kickbacks to procure the tests.  The tests, however, were not ordered by any physician and were not medically necessary for the treatment of patients.  After one physician learned that his credentials were being used without his authorization to order the tests, the physician told Ali to stop.  Ali nonetheless continued to have Noah Associates accept and bill the government for tests falsely ordered under that physician’s credentials for months.  As a result of the scheme, Medicaid and Medicare paid Noah Associates over $2.2 million for the unnecessary tests.  Ali personally received over $800,000 from Noah Associates during the scheme.



“Individuals and medical providers who accept kickbacks in exchange for the referral of patients covered under a Federal health care program place personal profit ahead of patient care, which can ultimately lead to the delivery of costly, medically unnecessary services,” said Mario M. Pinto, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), Chicago Region.  “Our agency is committed to working with our law enforcement partners to bring those who violate laws intended to protect patients, and our Federal health care programs, to justice.”

Government Actions 2

USA v. Hanson et al - Justin Hanson

The following describes a government action that has been resolved by either a settlement or a decision by a court or administrative agency. If the matter is being appealed, it will be noted below.

Justin Drew Hanson was sentenced to 21 months in prison for paying health care kickbacks that defrauded Medicaid and Medicare programs of more than $2.2 million, authorities announced Monday.



Justin Drew Hanson received the sentence March 21 for violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He was also ordered to pay more than $2.2 million in restitution and a $75,000 fine.



Court records show Hanson and co-defendant Mohammed Kazim Ali owned Noah Associates, a Milwaukee-area clinical laboratory. From 2017 to 2020, they paid more than $400,000 in kickbacks to a substance use treatment clinic owner in exchange for referrals of Medicaid and Medicare patients for urine drug testing. The tests were not ordered by physicians and were not medically necessary, prosecutors said. The scheme used sham agreements to conceal the fraud.