Kickbacks: Millennium Free Test Cup Physicians Crackdown Yields First 7-Figure Settlement

The federal crackdown against the physicians and medical practices that accepted free point-of-care test cups from Millennium Health continues. On Oct. 2, 2019, the OIG dropped a bombshell by announcing that a medical practice in North Florida had entered into a $1.128 million settlement. That’s the largest such settlement, by far, since the shift from lab payer to physician payees began more than two years. Of course, it dwarfs the $256 million the author of the largest kickback scheme in history, Millennium Health, settled for back in 2016. Here’s the latest tally.

Millennium Free POCT Cup Physicians Settlement Scorecard (as of Oct. 20, 2019)
Date	Provider(s)	Settlement Amount	Individual Physicians Also Charged?
Oct. 2, 2019	Physicians Group Services, P.A.	$1,128,615	NO
July 12, 2019	Anesthesia Services P.C. d/b/a University Pain Clinic (Detroit)	$44,900	NO
June 14, 2019	HKD Treatment Options, P.C.	$87,650	NO
Dec. 21, 2018	Tulsa Pain Consultants, Inc.	$98,942	YES
Sept. 6, 2018	Doctor’s Inlet Pediatrics and Primary Care, P.A., and Avenues Pediatrics and Internal Medicine (Florida)	$58,370	YES
May 24, 2018	Recovery Pathways, LLC (Michigan)	$64,555	NO
April 5, 2018	Affordable Medical Care f/k/a Andalusia Medical Center (Alabama)	$40,500	YES
Feb. 28, 2018	The Pain Institute, Inc. d/b/a Space Coast Pain Institute (Florida)	$95,302	YES
Dec. 5, 2017	Addiction Medical Care of Norwalk, Practice Management Associates Norwalk, LLC, Addiction Medical Care of Columbus, and Practice Management Associates, LLC (collectively, “AMC”) (Ohio)	$79,880	NO
Sept. 27, 2017	Advanced Pain Management (Arizona)	$186,210	NO
Sept. 18, 2017	Parallax Center, Inc. (New York)	$64,203	NO