Indian national gets 2-year jail term in United States 'Medicare fraud'

An Indian national who admitted to orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud through a Washington-based diagnostic lab was sentenced to two years in federal prison, US Attorney Charles Neil Floyd announced.

Mohammed Asif, 35, who was taken into custody on April 10, 2025, at Chicago O’Hare International Airport as he attempted



to board an international flight, has been ordered to pay $1,174,813 in restitution. He now faces likely deportation after completing his sentence.

Asif pleaded guilty on September 4 to conspiracy to commit health care fraud tied to the operations of American Labworks LLC, a now-defunct diagnostic testing laboratory in Everett, Washington.