Unnecessary Genetic Testing on Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Patients Alleged in Federal Qui Tam Case Involving California Based Laboratory

Genetic testing is currently the subject of numerous qui tam cases and investigations by the Office of Inspector General. This is in additio...

New York Doctor Charged With Taking Kickbacks In Test-Referral Arrangement With Clinical Lab. Huge Case With 27 Doctors Pleading Guilty.

Federal health care fraud cases involving payments for referrals are getting larger, involving more health care providers and get prosecuted...

New Jersey Woman Pleads Guilty to Role In Medicare Fraud by Clinical Laboratory Billing for Genetic DNA Testing on Seniors Where Healthcare Providers Were Paid for Authorizations

Fraud prosecutions in clinical laboratories are on the rise. Marketing is usually at the heart of these cases. A recent case involving DNA t...

Premiertox Pays U.S. and Tennessee $2.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit for Urine Drug Screening Services. Allegations of Unlawful Kickbacks, Lack of Medical Necessity

Quantitative urine drug screening ordered by physicians or other health care providers (such as drug treatment centers) and toxicology labor...

Doctor Charged With Accepting Cash From Sales Representatives For Referrals To Lab Companies for Blood and DNA Testing

A New Jersey doctor with offices in Toms River, New Jersey, was indicted for accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes over a one year ...

Former Doctor and Non-Doctor Owners of Kentucky Clinical Laboratory Indicted for Health Care Fraud Due to Urine Drug Testing

Drug toxicology was considered a lucrative field in health care. Urine drug testing is important for physicians to monitor patient use of dr...

New York Doctor Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Payments for Test-Referrals With New Jersey Clinical Lab. Payments Were Made to Doctors Under Lease, Consulting, Service or Management Agreements With Doctors Where Referrals Occured Were Called "Bribes" or "Kickbacks" and Agreements Were Called "Sham"

A doctor,  Brett Halper MD,  with a practice in Rockville Centre, New York, was sentenced November 18, 2015 to 46 months in prison for accep...

Millennium Health Laboratories Agrees to Pay $256 Million to Resolve Qui Tam Allegations of Unnecessary Urine Drug and Genetic Testing and Illegal Kickbacks to Physicians

Millennium Health, formerly Millennium Laboratories, has agreed to pay $256 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act fo...

Tracy Green Interviewed About "Blood-Testing Startup Theranos, Inc. Is Trading Blows With the Wall Street Journal"

Legal Broadcast Network recently interviewed Los Angeles attorney Tracy Green , and expert in health care regulatory issues, on the possible...