Patrick Britton-Harr, 41, of Charleston, South Carolina, United States owned and operated a company called Provista Health and owned a charter jet company called AeroVanti. He is accused of defrauding Medicare and AeroVanti members.
Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Medicare is a federal health insurance program formed in the U.S. on July 30, 1965. Britton-Harr is a former resident of Annapolis, Maryland, which is around 31 miles away from Baltimore.
Patrick Britton-Harr
During the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Britton-Harr offered COVID-19 screening tests to nursing home patients across the U.S. Through Provista Health, he allegedly fraudulently billed Medicare for expensive respiratory pathogen panel (RPP) tests for these patients and caused more than $15 million in fraudulent claims for the tests to be submitted to the program.
Medicare paid more than $5 million for the RPP tests that were neither medically necessary nor ordered by a treating physician as required. Many of the tests were never actually performed including for patients who had died.
In addition, Britton-Harr allegedly encouraged AeroVanti members to pay $150,000 upfront to secure block flight hours and in return, he allegedly promised to use their money to purchase specific aircraft, in which the members would have a securitized interest. Almost 100 members who were recruited collectively paid approximately $15 million in upfront payments to purchase five aircraft.
Instead of buying aircraft, Britton-Harr allegedly used the AeroVanti members’ money to rent a property near Tampa, Florida, USA, pay his living expenses and purchase jewelry and yachts. To conceal his fraud, he allegedly obtained a $1.5 million loan to purchase one of the aircraft he had already claimed to have purchased with funds from his charter jet company’s members and withheld material information from the lender to obtain the loan.
On July 18, 2023, the U.S. filed an application for prejudgment remedies seeking to attach and garnish certain financial assets of Britton-Harr and to obtain financial discovery from him to help ensure funds would be available to satisfy a judgment in favor of the country. It was under the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act.
On September 23, 2023, Britton-Harr sold his house in Annapolis and dissipated the financial proceeds from the sale despite a court order prohibiting him from selling the house without approval from the court. On March 4, 2024, the court granted a motion to hold him in civil contempt for violating this order and ordered him to deposit $575,000 with the court’s registry.
On May 28, 2025, two indictments were unsealed charging Britton-Harr. In an indictment related to his RPP scheme, he was charged with money laundering and five counts of health care fraud and in another indictment related to his AeroVanti scheme, he was charged with six counts of wire fraud.
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