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OIG: Not charging a patient for laboratory testing could violate...
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services recently released Advisory Opinion 15-04, which discusses whether a laboratory that provides free services to...
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More thoughts on recent exclusive laboratory arrangement ruling from OIG
Last week I published a summary of Advisory Opinion 15-04 from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services put together by Mr. Lee Dilworth, Chief Legal...
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United States intervening in lawsuits against BlueWave Healthcare...
I received an email the other day from whistleblower law firm Phillips and Cohen which contained a press release about the $47 million settlement agreement Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL) entered...
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Kickback allegations against LabCorp in Georgia whistleblower suit dismissed
(examiner.com) A US district court judge in Atlanta has dismissed the federal kickback allegations made against LabCorp in a whistleblower suit filed by Chris Riedel, former owner of Hunter...
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Health Diagnostic Laboratory files for bankruptcy
Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late in the evening on June 7, 2015. Dr. Joseph McConnell, HDL’s President and CEO, says HDL is “confident these actions will enable...
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Cigna accuses urine drug toxicology laboratories of fraud, kickback scheme
Health insurer Cigna recently filed a lawsuit against Sky Toxicology Lab Management and urine drug toxicology (UDT) laboratories Sky Toxicology, Frontier Toxicology and Hill Country Toxicology that,...
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Appeals court vacates judgment against Millennium Health in point-of-care...
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the judgment against Millennium Health (MH) in a lawsuit in which Ameritox accused it of violating the Stark Law and federal Anti-Kickback Statute...
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Pinnacle Laboratory Services files kickback countersuit against American...
Pinnacle Laboratory Services has filed a countersuit against American Clinical Solutions (ACS) and three of its executives in which it alleges they have: …devised and undertaken an unlawful “kickback”...
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Millennium Health close to declaring bankruptcy?
Bloomberg Business recently published an article that says, among other things, embattled urine drug toxicology company Millennium Health (MH) is close to finalizing a deal with its lenders “to...
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StrataDx gets new owners
Not long after I published my article about the $560,000 settlement between pathology laboratory StrataDx and the federal government to settle allegations StrataDx provided kickbacks to physicians...
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