Case: A methadone clinic settled claims of overbilling the Connecticut Medicaid Program for urine drug tests for $354,367. Under state rules, methadone clinics receive a bundled weekly per patient … [Read more...]
Labs In Court
A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
June 3, 2020
Whistleblower Lawsuit Can’t Start Until Criminal Investigation Ends Case: Two former MedComp Laboratory Sciences employees filed a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the lab of concocting an elaborate … [Read more...]
Labs In Court
A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
April 27, 2020
Florida Lab, Execs Settle False Billing of Urine Drug Test Charges for $41 Million Case: Prosecutors accused a Tampa reference lab, pain clinic and two former executives of billing Medicare, … [Read more...]
Labs In Court
A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
March 30, 2020
SCOTUS Agrees to Step in and Resolve Obamacare Constitutionality Case: Before COVID-19, the health care issue that kept millions of Americans up at night was the future of the Affordable Care … [Read more...]
SCORECARD
Scorecard: SVT False Billing Settlements Near the $3 Million Mark
March 9, 2020
Urine drug testing for purposes of medical treatment is deemed medically necessary under Medicare billing and payment rules. The same is not true for specimen validity tests (SVT), a quality control … [Read more...]
Labs in Court
Drug Abuse Treatment Owner Guilty of $57 Million Drug Test Pass-Thru Billing Conspiracy
February 6, 2020
Case: The owner of a northern Florida substance abuse treatment center pleaded guilty for his role in a $57 million pass-through lab testing billing and money laundering scheme. The way it worked: The … [Read more...]
Labs In Court
A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
January 27, 2020
Reference Lab Pays $26.7 Million to Settle False Claim Charges Case: The feds claim that Laboratory Boston Heart Diagnostics contracted to provide lab testing services to Texas hospitals in … [Read more...]
Labs In Court A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
January 2, 2020
Court Refuses to Let M.D./Executives Out of Their Non-Competes Case: After leaving the national reference lab in which they owned equity and served as executives, a pair of Georgia pathologists … [Read more...]
ANTI-KICKBACK
Labs In Court: A roundup of recent cases and enforcement actions involving the diagnostics industry
October 18, 2019
Quest Pays $88.7K to Settle Specimen Collection Fee Kickback Charges Against Its Subsidiary Case: After self-disclosing, Quest has settled kickback claims against its wholly-owned subsidiary, … [Read more...]
