Keith Gray, a former NFL player who played for the Carolina Panthers in 2009, was convicted for his role in a $328 million Medicare fraud scheme, according to authorities.
The US Department of Justice, in a news release issued on Friday (February 20, 2026), said that a federal jury in Dallas convicted the 39-year-old former NFL player and University of Connecticut student athlete for orchestrating “a scheme to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary genetic tests designed to evaluate the risk of various cardiovascular diseases and conditions.”
Gray, of McKinney, Texas, who owns and operates two clinical laboratories, offered and “paid kickbacks to marketers in exchange for their referral of Medicare beneficiaries’ DNA samples, personally identifiable information (including Medicare numbers), and signed test orders from medical providers authorizing the medically unnecessary genetic…
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