Pennsylvania vision testing firm to pay $14.25M in Medicare fraud settlement over unapproved device use
NEWARK, N.J. – Diopsys, Inc., a medical device manufacturer based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, will pay up to $14.25 million to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare…
Former CEO of defunct medical testing laboratory sentenced to prison for medical kickback scheme
Seattle – The former Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Physicians Laboratory (NWPL) was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two years in prison and $7.6 million in restitution for…
Owner of Drug Testing Lab Sentenced in Medicare Kickback Scheme
ABINGDON, Va. – A Las Vegas, Nevada-based laboratory owner, who paid another lab owner to direct urine samples to his lab for testing and then billed the federal government for that testing,…
Owner Of Consumer Products Testing Company Sentenced To 60 Months In Prison For Fraud Scheme Involving Fabricated Test Results
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Catherine Hermsen, Assistant Commissioner, United States Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (“FDA-OIC”), Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant…
New Jersey Lawmakers Want More Drug Testing for School Bus Drivers as Legal Weed Enters the Picture
TRENTON, N.J. – Two New Jersey lawmakers are calling for more drug testing for school bus drivers in the Garden State now that recreational marijuana has been legalized. The two Republicans say…
Physician Partners of America to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Allegations of Unnecessary Testing, Improper Remuneration to Physicians and a False Statement in Connection with COVID-19 Relief Funds
Physician Partners of America LLC (PPOA), headquartered in Tampa, Florida, its founder, Rodolfo Gari, and its former chief medical officer, Dr. Abraham Rivera, have agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve allegations…
Co-Owner of defunct medical testing lab convicted of kickback scheme to profit on urine drug tests for government insurance programs
Seattle – A resident of Astoria, Oregon was convicted this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle of five federal felonies connected to his scheme to profit from illegal kickbacks in the…
MIT Bucks The Liberal University Consensus, Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements
MIT Bucks The Liberal University Consensus, Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements Kendall Tietz on March 29, 2022 UPDATE: This article has been updated to include comment from MIT in response to its standardized…
DEA Agrees to Assist in Testing of Suspected Narcotics in Cases Being Prosecuted in D.C. Superior Court
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will perform drug testing at its laboratories on evidence submitted by prosecutors in District of Columbia cases under…
Cue Health Serves as Preferred Testing Provider for the 2022 McDonald’s All American Games
Cue® helps the nation’s premiere high school basketball showcase return to in-person action SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2022 — Cue Health (“Cue”) (Nasdaq: HLTH), the healthcare technology company behind the country’s most…
Diagnostic testing company agrees to resolve claims for improperly billed testing
DAYTON, Ohio – American Health Associates, Inc. (AHA) has agreed to pay the United States $142,718 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly caused the submission of false claims to…
Former lab director sentenced to prison for falsifying results of steel testing on parts for Navy subs
Tacoma – The former Director of Metallurgy at Bradken Inc. was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 30 months in prison, and a $50,000 fine, for falsifying test results…
Sweden Halts Mass COVID Testing, Even For The Symptomatic
Sweden halted its COVID-19 testing regime on Wednesday, even for those who are showing symptoms of infection, as many European countries end pandemic restrictions, the Associated Press reported. The country’s mobile city-square…
Johns Hopkins Now Requires Double Masking Despite 99% Vax Rate, Booster Requirement And Twice Weekly Testing
Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is requiring students to either wear two masks or wear an N-95 or KN-95 mask on campus during the spring semester despite nearly universal vaccination on campus and…
UC San Diego Health Pays $2.98 Million to Resolve Allegations of Ordering Unnecessary Genetic Testing
Assistant U. S. Attorneys Joseph Price (619) 546-7642 and Joseph Purcell (619) 546-7643 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – January 11, 2022 SAN DIEGO – UC San Diego Health, the academic health system of…
UC San Diego Health Pays $2.98 Million to Resolve Allegations of Ordering Unnecessary Genetic Testing
UC San Diego Health, the academic health system of the University of California, San Diego, has paid $2.98 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by ordering medically…
New Jersey’s Vault testing for COVID-19 not working as intended as hundreds of thousands didn’t return tests
TRENTON, NJ – The Vault at-home testing service offered by the state of New Jersey isn’t working as well as the state hope it would. Part of the problem is the service…
Murphy administration to ban unvaccinated students from school activities, require student testing
Folks, the science doesn’t make sense. According to a new COVID-19 guidance sheet dropped by the New Jersey Department of Health on New Year’s Eve, the Phil Murphy administration is calling for…
Ocean County sees 1,000 new COVID-19 cases as testing center overloaded minutes after opening
TOMS RIVER, NJ – If you’re hoping to get a COVID-19 test in Ocean County at the health department clinic, think again. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the center at Ocean County College…
Ocean County records 872 new cases, a record and testing center booked through January
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Ocean County recorded 872 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and booking at the Ocean County College testing site is now booked solid through the end of January. The…
New Jersey governor missing in action as COVID-19 continues to soar, cases increase and testing nearly impossible to get
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will not be taking time out from his Central American Christmas vacation with his family in Costa Rica as cases of COVID-19 continue to…