A Georgia man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $7.2 million in restitution for his involvement in a Medicare fraud and kickback scheme. Patrick C. Moore Jr., 48, of Peachtree City, directed a network of recruiters who targeted Medicare beneficiaries and induced them to accept genetic tests that were not medically necessary or eligible for reimbursement.
Court documents show that Moore received about $4.3 million in kickbacks and bribes from co-conspirators for referring beneficiary insurance information, DNA samples, and doctors’ orders for genetic testing. He then paid illegal kickbacks to his network of recruiters. To hide the nature of these payments, Moore created false invoices showing fabricated hours worked instead of per-referral payments, which violated the Anti-Kickback Statute.
Laboratories connected with Moore and his associates billed Medicare around $24 million for unnecessary genetic tests and received approximately $7.2 million in payments on those claims.
Moore pleaded guilty in May 2025 to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks.
"Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Margaret Heap for the Southern District of Georgia; Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Christian J. Schrank of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) Dallas Regional Office; Special Agent in Charge Kelly Blackmon of the HHS-OIG Atlanta Regional Office; and Special Agent in Charge Paul W. Brown of the FBI Atlanta Field Office made the announcement."
The investigation was conducted by HHS-OIG and the FBI.
Trial Attorneys Ethan Womble and Benjamin Smith from the Justice Department’s Fraud Section, along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Thompson from the Southern District of Georgia, prosecuted the case.
The Justice Department’s Fraud Section leads efforts against health care fraud through its Health Care Fraud Strike Force Program, which operates nine strike forces across 27 federal districts. Since its launch in March 2007, more than 5,800 defendants have been charged with billing federal health care programs and private insurers over $30 billion through fraudulent schemes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is also working with HHS-OIG to hold providers accountable for their roles in such schemes. More details are available at www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/health-care-fraud-unit.