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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…
Federal Whistleblower Suit Settled by Dianon Systems
IT’S A REMINDER THAT WHISTLEBLOWERS continue to look for opportunities to turn in laboratories, even if the violations are relatively minor. Last month, Dianon Systems Inc., of Stratford, Connecticut, agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a federal false claims action originally fi…
Ohio Hospitals Prevail in Suit Against Federal Lab Claims
IT TOOK FIVE YEARS, but federal courts finally gave victory to the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) in its long-running battle against federal regulators over laboratory test billing issues. Early last month, the OHA signed a settlement with the federal government which resolves the …
SmithKline, AmeriPath, Quest, Tenet
TENET AND MEDPARTNERS CONTINUE TIGHTENING THEIR SO. CALIF. ALLIANCE Remember THE DARK REPORT’S prediction that …
HMOs Abandon Medicaid In Several Eastern States
CEO SUMMARY: In a number of states, certain HMOs have ceased servicing Medicaid patients. This trend will grow. It is the spearpoint for a coming battle between government healthcare programs and private healthcare providers: What level of reimbursement is adequate to provide appropriate …
Ohio Hospital Lab Lawsuit Tossed Out By The Judge
CEO SUMMARY: Hospitals in Ohio now find themselves at square one again in their efforts to stop federal prosecutors from continuing the statewide investigation of laboratory billing practices. The judge’s legal ruling denied jurisdiction to hear the case and did not address any of the a…
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