IN RECENT DECADES, probably no sector of the U.S. healthcare system has seen the level of fraud and abuse that seems to pervade the clinical laboratory industry. The common perception is that illegal inducements between lab companies and referring physicians are rampant and federal prosecutors have failed to bring enough violators to justice to effectively […]
- Compliance Update
Peeking at Whistleblower Claims: How Labs Induce Physicians
Once-sealed qui tam lawsuit now is public, describes different schemes to reward referring docs
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXV No. 14 - October 1, 2018 Issue
- Tags: anti kickback, anti kickback statute, clinical lab, Clinical Laboratory, clinical laboratory industry, compliance requirements, cpt, cpt code, dark report, false claims act, hospital lab outreach programs, lab managers, lab outreach, lab test, lab tests, laboratory industry, Medicare, pathologists, stark law, the clinical laboratory, the dark report, the stark law
