Los Angeles reached a $22.5 million settlement with Sameday Health—a COVID-19 testing company the city alleged forged hundreds of coronavirus test results and conducted insurance fraud, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced on April 21.
The complaint filed by Feuer and District Attorney George Gascón accused Sameday and its CEO Felix Huettenbach of promising to deliver test results to consumers within 24 hours when it didn’t have the capacity to do so.
They also alleged that Sameday forged hundreds of COVID test results in its second weekend of operation when consumers complained of delay.
“It’s beyond outrageous that anyone would falsify COVID tests, as we allege happened here,” Feuer said in a statement. “The victims of this alleged scheme [who received fake negative test results] might unknowingly have spread COVID to others or failed to receive timely and appropriate care themselves.”
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