HOUSTON – BestCare Laboratory Services LLC, will pay $5.7 million to settle an outstanding False Claims Act judgment after the company defrauded Medicare to receive travel reimbursements, the United States Department of Justice said in a news release.

The company was based in Webster, Texas in Harris County and is no longer operating as a clinical laboratory.

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The judgment was made in 2018 and the court discovered that Karim A. Maghareh was at the forefront of how the company billed Medicare for travel allowance reimbursements that did not match the mileage the company had traveled to pick up specimens in Texas. The company would conduct these services at nursing homes.

In 2018, the DOJ asked BestCare to pay the U.S. $30.5 million, which is separate from the new settlement.

“The settlement provides for payments totaling $5.7 million and the possibility of additional annual payments for five years based on Maghareh’s future income. These payments are in addition to $789,652 that the United States has already...

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