Zishan Alvi, the owner of a medical testing laboratory in Chicago, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Monday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Alvi’s ...
Federal investigators said the company bundled the tests with COVID-19 screenings at senior living communities, sometimes without valid orders.
A COVID testing lab in Chicago delivered negative results to people before their tests had even been run, federal officials said. The owner and operator, 45-year-old Zishan Alvi, pleaded guilty to ...
The lab was accused of billing Medicare for medically unnecessary respiratory pathogen panel testing.
Antibody testing shows whether you've had the COVID-19 virus in the past. It's not the same as testing to see whether you have the virus now.
A new biotechnology company in McKinney has ambitions to become the world's first fully integrated platform for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing - the same technology behind a common COVID-19 ...
With COVID-19 infections on the rise in the United States, people exhibiting respiratory symptoms are more likely to seek a test. Now that the disease is in its endemic stage, testing looks different ...
Remember that the RT-PCR test is just one part of how to diagnose and treat a patient with suspected COVID-19. It is important to look at the rest of the patient’s laboratory results and their images.
In our last article on traveling in the pandemic era, we touched on testing before, during and after trips to screen for COVID-19. We emphasized checking the country and airline requirements to make ...
The co-owner of a Chicago COVID-19 testing laboratory was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for a fraud scheme in which in which his company provided fake negative results to people ...
New findings from the RECOVER-Adult cohort study show that 25 routine clinical lab tests are not effective in diagnosing postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, echoing results from earlier ...