Compliance Perspectives: How to Perform Excluded Provider Checks
Hiring, retaining, or simply doing business with the wrong people may expose your lab to significant financial penalties.
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Kentucky $1.74 Million Settlement Illustrates the Danger of Billing Medicare for Nonmedical Urine Drug Tests
A recent False Claims Act settlement from Kentucky represents an unusual variation on a common theme.
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Weekly Enforcement Report: Drug Testing Fraud Dominates
Last week’s three key cases included two involving drug testing that was either medically unnecessary, or not provided at all.
Reimbursement: ABN’s Failure to Include List Prices for Denied Lab Tests Is Not Consumer Fraud
Recent case shows why failing to disclose to individuals the lab test list prices they may need to pay doesn’t count as consumer fraud.
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Convicted Lab Owner Fails to Report to Prison
In addition to the usual FCA-related fare, an arrest warrant was issued for a convicted lab co-owner after he failed to show up for prison.