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Top Five Articles on 360Dx Last Week: Mobile Phlebotomy Company Fraud; Quest, Agilent Deal; and More
Last week, readers were most interested in a guilty plea by a mobile phlebotomy company alleged to have engaged in a $7.5 million scheme.
Owners of California Mobile Phlebotomy Company Plead Guilty to $7.5M Fraud Scheme
The owners billed Medicare for services not reimbursed by Medicare and in their bills overstated the mileage traveled by their company's phlebotomists.
Co-Owner of Defunct Clinical Lab Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Kickback Scheme
Richard Reid, co-owner of Northwest Physicians Laboratory, was convicted of referring government testing to other labs in exchange for kickbacks.
DOJ Indicts Lab Owners in Alleged Conspiracy to Fraudulently Bill Medicare $107M
Three individuals used kickbacks and bribes in a scheme to get DNA specimens and corresponding prescriptions to bill Medicare for genetic testing.
Georgia Lab Owner Convicted of $463M Medicare Genetic Testing Fraud Scheme
The man promoted and sold medically unnecessary tests to Medicare beneficiaries then paid kickbacks to get signed doctors' orders for those tests.