Quest to Pay $1.15 Million for Self-Disclosed CMP Violations Case: Quest Diagnostics, Inc., New Jersey has agreed to fork over $1.151 million for a trio of Civil Monetary Penalties Law violations … [Read more...]
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A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
OSHA Fines Address Bloodborne Pathogen and Violence Hazards
Case: OSHA fined a Pennsylvania mental health hospital $32,158 for a trio of safety violations, including failing to protect nurses, medical technicians and other employees against workplace violence … [Read more...]
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
Family MD Faces Jail for Taking Blood Test Referral Bribes. Case: It took the jury just four hours to find a 79-year-old New Jersey family physician guilty of all 10 counts of accepting bribes from … [Read more...]
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
Quest Pays $315K for Self-Disclosed Rent Kickbacks to MDs. Case: Quest Diagnostics agreed to pay $315,093 for allegedly paying kickbacks to a referral source. Quest self-disclosed the conduct which … [Read more...]
HHS Blocked from Enforcing Gender Identity Antidiscrimination Rule
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act bans Medicare participants from committing discrimination on the basis of, among other things, gender identity. A group of religious hospital systems and … [Read more...]
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
BLS Bribery Scheme Claims another Physician. Case: A New York internist became the third physician indicted in the Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services (BLS) bribery scheme. The Justice Department claims … [Read more...]
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
Ex-Hospital Exec Pays $1 Million for Role in Kickback Scheme. Case: Last fall, Tuomey Healthcare shelled out $72.4 million to settle claims of paying part-time specialists for referrals of hospital … [Read more...]
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
Continuum Waves White Flag on Medicaid Overpayments Delay Case Case: A software glitch caused Continuum to submit roughly 450 erroneous claims to Medicaid between 2009 and 2010 resulting in … [Read more...]
Largest Takedown in Strike Force History Alleges $900 Million in False Medicare Billing
By Kelly A. Briganti, Editorial Director, G2 Intelligence Nearly a year to the day after another nationwide Strike Force takedown, the Department of Justice announced last week what it says is a … [Read more...]