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...]
NEWS
Labs In Court:
A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
May 15, 2017
ENFORCEMENT
OSHA Fines Address Bloodborne Pathogen and Violence Hazards
March 20, 2017
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...]
ENFORCEMENT
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
March 14, 2017
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...]
NEWS
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
February 22, 2017
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...]
ENFORCEMENT
HHS Blocked from Enforcing Gender Identity Antidiscrimination Rule
February 21, 2017
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...]
NEWS
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
December 28, 2016
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...]
NEWS
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
October 28, 2016
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...]
ENFORCEMENT
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
September 30, 2016
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...]
ENFORCEMENT
Largest Takedown in Strike Force History Alleges $900 Million in False Medicare Billing
July 7, 2016
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...]
