Security News > 2022 > January > Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?

Over the past few weeks, I've seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites.

It provides tests and testing supplies, software, personal protective equipment and marketing services - online and printed - to testing sites, said a person who was formerly associated with the Center for COVID Control.

Doctors Clinical Lab, the lab Center for COVID Control uses to process tests, makes money by billing patients' insurance companies or seeking reimbursement from the federal government for testing.

Insurance statements reviewed by Block Club show the lab has, in multiple instances, billed insurance companies $325 for a PCR test, $50 for a rapid test, $50 for collecting a person's sample and $80 for a "Supplemental fee."

In turn, the testing sites are paid for providing samples to the lab to be processed, said a person formerly associated with the Center for COVID Control.

In a January video talking to testing site operators, Syed said the Center for COVID Control will no longer provide them with PCR tests, but it will continue supplying them with rapid tests at a cost of $5 per test.

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