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Teamsters, UCFW Sue NID, Quest In Racketeering Case
CEO SUMMARY: For the second time in recent years, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Nichols Institute Diagnostics (NID) face a lawsuit alleging problems with a number of diagnostic test kits that were manufactured and sold by NID going back to 2000. The plaintiffs are two unions…
Quest Diagnostics Settles Medi-Cal Qui Tam Case
CEO SUMMARY: On May 19, the California Attorney General announced a $241 million agreement with Quest Diagnostics Incorporated that represents the largest settlement in the history of California’s False Claims Act. At issue in this whistle- blower lawsuit were allegations that Qu…
What Comes Next in Battle Over Discount Lab Prices?
CEO SUMMARY: Now that the settlement involving Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and the California Attorney General has been announced, attention turns to what comes next with the four remaining defendant lab companies in the whistle-blower lawsuit. There are several different scen…
$241 Million May Settle Quest Medi-Cal Claims
CEO SUMMARY: There’s movement in the negotiations between California state officials and Quest Diagnostics Incorporated over allegations that discounted lab test prices violated state law. In January, Quest disclosed that it had an “understanding” with California regulators…
Did Qui Tam Suit Trigger Medi-Cal Price Concerns?
CEO SUMMARY: It is easy to track backwards to understand why the California Department of Healthcare Services (DHCS) began aggressive enforcement of its interpretation of statute 51501(a) against a number of labs this summer. DHCS officials were given a full education and a roadm…
Calif. Officials Back Off From Suspending Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Early in the summer, California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) delivered letters to between 10 and 30 laboratory companies notifying them that, effective immediately, it was withholding their Medi-Cal payments and was suspending each lab’s Medi-Cal l…
AG Jerry Brown Settles With Westcliff Med Labs
CEO SUMMARY: In California, Attorney General Jerry Brown is making progress in the whistleblower lawsuit alleging that seven lab companies in California violated state law by not giving Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, the same lowest lab test prices they extend to physi…
2009’s Top Ten Lab Stories Reflect Some Good, Bad
CEO SUMMARY: As the closing year of the first decade of the new century and the new millennium, 2009 brought neither disruption nor upheaval to the majority of laboratories in the United States. Rather, it was marked by at least two themes. One was how public disclosure of problems with l…
Attorney General Brown Sues Seven California Labs
CEO SUMMARY: California Attorney General Jerry Brown made a big splash last month by accusing seven lab firms of committing “massive fraud and kickbacks” under state Medicaid laws. However, he is relying on a legal theory that has not prevailed in some prior court cases invol…
Bostwick Labs Prepares For Public Stock Offering
CEO SUMMARY: In recent years, annual revenue at Bostwick Laboratories has skyrocketed, reaching $102.8 mil- lion in 2007. Now the company, known for its national uropathology expertise, has filed documents in preparation for an initial public stock offering (IPO). Bostwick Laboratories is…
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