Sutter Health Pays Millions to Settle Improper Billing Claims
The healthcare services provider will be on the hook for $13 million for alleged improper billing of lab tests.
The healthcare services provider will be on the hook for $13 million for alleged improper billing of lab tests.
In this week’s enforcement roundup, Radeas reaches a settlement with the State of North Carolina after alleged improper billing.
This month’s key lab cases involve false billing of urine drug and PGx tests and two lawsuits that were tossed.
Individuals were supposedly paid kickbacks to obtain genetic samples for unnecessary genetic testing, which was then falsely billed to federal healthcare programs.
Owners of now defunct Physicians Choice Laboratory Services were accused of paying kickbacks to physicians to order tests from the lab.