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New Developments in $1 Billion Lab Fraud Case
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Court documents filed last month in the federal qui tam case against Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Singulex, Berkeley Heart Lab, BlueWave Healthcare Consultants, and several lab executives allege that the defendants used illegal inducements and kickbacks to file false c…
True Health To Buy HDL Pending Court Approval
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: This will be an interesting week in the ongoing saga of Health Diagnostic Laboratory. The judge in the bankruptcy case must review the sales auction and the winning bid of $37.1 million that True Health Diagnostics submitted. At least two lawyers representing whistleblowers in …
Winning Bidder for HDL Connected to BlueWave
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Events within the bankruptcy proceedings of Health Diagnostic Laboratory could be interpreted as setting the stage for the emergence of a laboratory company operated by executives-and marketed by a sales consultant-known to have had leadership roles in other lab companies accus…
Meet Richest Sales Reps In Lab Testing Industry
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Without much fanfare, two individuals who had been sales representatives at Berkeley HeartLab as late as 2009, took distributions of $58 million each between 2010 and 2014 for their sales consulting services at BlueWave Healthcare Consultants, according to allegations in the fe…
Isn’t It Time for More Criminal Prosecutions of Lawbreakers?
By R. Lewis Dark | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
WILL FEDERAL PROSECUTORS BE PLAYING ANOTHER ROUND of the game “whack a mole” with some of the same principals and clients of Health Diagnostic Laboratory and Bluewave Healthcare Consultants? These are individuals who figured prominently in the ongoing federal whistleblower cases allegin…
New Developments in $1 Billion Laboratory Fraud Case
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII NO. 13 – September 14, 2015 Issue
IT’S THE $1 BILLION LABORATORY FRAUD that no one realized had grown so big. In this special issue of THE DARK REPORT, you’ll read how the next chapter of the federal whistleblower lawsuit against three specialty cardiology labs and certain individuals has pulled the curtain open on what …
Is New Cycle of Laboratory Fraud Plaguing the Industry?
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 12 – August 24, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Taken collectively, the growing number of federal investigations of lab companies and health insurer lawsuits against lab companies alleging fraudulent busine…
Is New Cycle of Fraud Plaguing Lab Industry?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXII No. 12 – August 24, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Taken collectively, the growing number of federal investigations of clinical lab companies and health insurer lawsuits against lab companies alleging fraudulent business practices signals a disturbing new trend for the lab industry. Although these allegations are lev…
Combining Lean Techniques with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results
By Mary Van Doren | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue
PROBABLY NO AREA OF CLINICAL LABORATORY MEDICINE is experiencing the dramatic transformation happening in microbiol…
Combining Lean with Lab Automation to Get Impressive Results
By Joseph Burns | From the Volume XXII No. 10 – July 13, 2015 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: By combining total lab automation with Lean techniques in a comprehensive makeover of its microbiology lab, one of the largest labs providing hospital acute care and community microbiology services in North America achieved major benefits. Benefits ranged from impro…
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