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Texas lab owner pleads guilty in $1.7M Medicare fraud
By LabPulse.com staff writers
A Plano, TX, lab owner has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a scheme to obtain $1.7 million from Medicare fraudulently, announced the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas in a statement.
December 6, 2023
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Exagen to pay $653K in settlement on kickback allegations
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Exagen has agreed to pay $653,143 to settle allegations that it paid specimen processing fees to physicians to persuade those physicians to use Exagen’s diagnostics tests, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
October 18, 2023
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Fla. call center manager convicted in $67M fraudulent testing scheme
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The manager of a Florida call center has been convicted by a federal jury in Ft. Pierce, FL, for his role in a $67 million fraudulent genetic testing scheme.
October 11, 2023
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Lab manager pleads guilty in $359M fraudulent testing scheme
By LabPulse.com staff writers
A California woman has pleaded guilty to a $359 million fraudulent testing scheme.
October 10, 2023
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Genomic Health to pay $32.5M to settle False Claims Act allegations
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Genomic Health, a subsidiary of Exact Sciences, has agreed to pay $32.5 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in a scheme to improperly bill Medicare for laboratory tests.
October 4, 2023
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U.S. Attorney’s Office wins $370M judgment in Medicare fraud case
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida won a $370 million default judgment against a Kentucky lab owner and his businesses for a lab testing scheme intended to defraud Medicare.
September 28, 2023
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Ga. lab owner sentenced for $463M Medicare testing fraud scheme
By LabPulse.com staff writers
Ga. lab owner Minal Patel was sentenced to serve 27 years in prison following his December 2022 conviction for his role in a $463 million Medicare fraud scheme.
September 8, 2023
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Physician assistant guilty in $10M Medicare fraud involving genetic testing
By LabPulse.com staff writers
According to trial evidence, the defendant signed fraudulent prescriptions for medically unnecessary cancer genomic and pharmacogenetic testing.
June 14, 2023
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Georgia doctor, clinics to pay $625K to resolve False Claims Act allegations
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The defendants allegedly submitted improper claims to Medicare and Tricare insurance programs for evaluation and management services as well as medically unnecessary urine drug screening tests.
May 31, 2023
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California man guilty in testing kickback scheme
By LabPulse.com staff writers
According to information presented in court, the defendant conspired with others to pay and receive kickbacks in exchange for the referral of pharmacogenomic (PGx) tests.
May 10, 2023
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Warrant issued for arrest of convicted laboratory co-owner who failed to report to prison
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The executive was convicted of helping NWPL obtain more than $3.7 million in kickback payments by steering urine drug test specimens to two labs that could bill the government for testing.
May 8, 2023
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Texas laboratory to pay $5.9M to settle allegations of kickbacks, submitting claims for unnecessary drug tests
By LabPulse.com staff writers
The laboratory paid volume-based commissions to third party marketers in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and submitted claims to federal healthcare programs for unnecessary drug tests, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday.
April 6, 2023
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