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Florida MD Practices Shell Out $58.3K for Accepting Millennium Test Cup Freebies

by | Oct 26, 2018

Case: The round-up of physicians that accepted free point of care test (POCT) cups from Millennium Laboratories continues with a pediatrician and internist and their respective Jacksonville practices the latest to get roped in. The now bankrupt lab used the freebies as a form of remuneration paid to physicians in exchange for referrals of custom profile […]

Case: The round-up of physicians that accepted free point of care test (POCT) cups from Millennium Laboratories continues with a pediatrician and internist and their respective Jacksonville practices the latest to get roped in. The now bankrupt lab used the freebies as a form of remuneration paid to physicians in exchange for referrals of custom profile panels and other tests to carry out what the feds claim is the largest ever kickback scandal involving lab services.

Significance: After collecting $256 million from Millennium, the feds have spent the past 12 months targeting the physicians on the receiving end of the POCT cup scandal. (For more on the physician crackdown, see, GCA, June 18, 2018). The $58,300 the Jacksonville defendants agreed to pay in this case is the second lowest of the settlements so far.

Millennium Free POCT Cup Physicians Settlement Scorecard
DateProvider(s)Settlement AmountIndividual Physicians Also Charged?
Sept. 6, 2018Doctor’s Inlet Pediatrics and Primary Care, P.A., and Avenues Pediatrics and Internal Medicine (Florida)$58,370YES
May 24, 2018Recovery Pathways, LLC (Michigan)$64,555NO
April 5, 2018Affordable Medical Care f/k/a Andalusia Medical Center (Alabama)$40,500YES
Feb. 28, 2018The Pain Institute, Inc. d/b/a Space Coast Pain Institute (Florida)$95,302YES
Dec. 5, 2017Addiction Medical Care of Norwalk, Practice Management Associates Norwalk, LLC, Addiction Medical Care of Columbus, and Practice Management Associates, LLC (collectively, “AMC”) (Ohio)$79,880NO
Sept. 27, 2017Advanced Pain Management (Arizona)$186,210NO
Sept. 18, 2017Parallax Center, Inc. (New York)$64,203NO

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