CEO SUMMARY: In January, a U.S. Attorney from East Texas announced that seven physicians and a hospital CEO had agreed to settle allegations of fraud involving the payment of bribes in exchange for lab test orders. This is a positive development for the clinical laboratory profession because it demonstrates that the federal Department of Justice […]
Seven Doctors Settle Lab Test Fraud Case
In Texas, seven doctors and a hospital CEO will pay a total of $1.1 million in lab fraud case
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 - March 14, 2022 Issue
- Tags: ACA, Aetna, Affordable Care Act of 2010, AKS, anti kickback statute, Boston Heart Diagnostics, DOJ, false claims act, illegal kickbacks, lab test fraud, Little River Healthcare, management service organizations, MSO, people, Richard DeFoore, Stamford Memorial Hospital, stark law, True Health Diagnostics, U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas, U.S. Department of Justice
