Cancer Center Hit with $4.3 Million HIPAA Fine for Failure to Encrypt Case: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was on the wrong end of the fourth largest HIPAA fine ever dished out by … [Read more...]
COURT CASES
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
July 13, 2018
DATA SECURITY
Cancer Center Hit with $4.3 Million HIPAA Fine for Failure to Encrypt
July 11, 2018
Case: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was on the wrong end of the fourth largest HIPAA fine ever dished out by the HHS Office for Civil Rights for a trio of incidents between 2012 … [Read more...]
COURT CASES
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
June 19, 2018
Psychiatrist Pays $805K to Settle Urine Drug Test Billing Fraud Claims Case: The DOJ charged the owner of a Connecticut psychiatric practice of false billing of urine drug screening tests. The … [Read more...]
ANTITRUST
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
May 15, 2018
Breast Cancer Recurrence Test Billing Case Ends in $2 Million Settlement Case: BioTheranostics has agreed to shell out $2 million to settle claims of falsely billing Medicare for its molecular Breast … [Read more...]
ANTI-KICKBACK
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
April 11, 2018
Theranos & Its CEO Settle Stock Fraud Charges with SEC Case: Having settled with CMS, Walgreen's and the Arizona State Attorney General, Theranos has made peace with what may be the scariest of all … [Read more...]
ANTI-KICKBACK
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
March 16, 2018
ACLA Seeks Decisive Blow in PAMA Challenge Case Case: Attorneys for the American Clinical Laboratory Association asked the federal court for summary judgment in its lawsuit challenging the legality … [Read more...]
COURT CASES
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
February 27, 2018
HDL, Part II: Time to Hold the Individual Officers Accountable Case: Three years after Health Diagnostics Laboratory, Inc. (HDL) and its marketing partner BlueWave Healthcare Consultants—both now … [Read more...]
FALSE CLAIMS
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
January 17, 2018
Standing Orders Not Enough to Justify Urine Specimen Validity Testing Case: A Vermont lab has agreed to pay $815K to settle false claims charges. Over a five-year period, the lab routinely billed … [Read more...]
PRECISION MEDICINE
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
December 12, 2017
Using Nuclear Stress Tests as Screening Procedure = Medical Necessity Violation Case: A California cardio clinic and its physician owners will pay $1.2 million to settle charges of falsely billing … [Read more...]
ENFORCEMENT
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
October 23, 2017
Doctor Pleads Guilty for Ordering Unnecessary Tests of Opioid Patients Case: A 72-year-old Detroit area physician pleaded guilty for his role in a $19 million Medicare fraud scheme. In addition to … [Read more...]
