Case: The Northern Kentucky Center for Pain Relief agreed to pay the OIG $126,799.90 to settle claims of billing Medicare for specimen validity testing (SVT). Explanation: Under Medicare rules, urine drug testing is deemed medically necessary to detect and quantify the presence of drugs in a patient’s body. However, SVT, which analyzes the urine specimen to…
Kentucky Pain Clinic Pays $127K to Settle Specimen Validity Test Billing Claims
