CEO SUMMARY: It may be the first time that a former public laboratory CEO has turned whistleblower. Andrew Baker, formerly Chairman and CEO of Unilab Corporation in the 1990s, filed a qui tam case in federal court last year that centers on the practice of lab companies offering private health plans deeply-discounted lab test pricing […]
Former Lab CEO Explains Why He Filed Lawsuit
Whistleblower case alleges lab used discounts in effort to win Medicare ‘pull-through’ business
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XIX No. 3 - February 20, 2012 Issue
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