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Quest Diagnostics set a record in April 2009 when it paid $302 million to the government to settle a Medicare fraud case alleging the company sold faulty medical testing kits. It was the largest qui tam ( whistleblower ) settlement paid by a medical lab for manufacturing and distributing a faulty product. [ 51 ]
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In 1997, Operation LabScam forced SBCL to agree to pay a $325 million settlement for billing Medicare and Medicaid for tests that physicians were misled into believing were free, violating the 1863 False Claims Act. [2] In 1998, a phlebotomist at an SBCL facility in Palo Alto, California was exposed as reusing needles to save money.
Clinical laboratory services includes large multinational corporations such LabCorp, Quest Diagnostics, and Sonic Healthcare [23] but a significant portion of revenue, estimated at 60% in the United States, is generated by hospital labs. [24] In 2018, the total global revenue for these companies was estimated to reach $146 billion by 2024. [25]
(Reuters) - Laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics raised its 2024 profit and revenue forecast on Tuesday after beating first-quarter estimates on robust demand for its diagnostic tests.
That same year, Harris obtained two of the largest recoveries in the history of California's False Claims Act – $241 million from Quest Diagnostics and then $323 million from the SCAN healthcare network – over excess state Medi-Cal and federal Medicare payments. [18] [19]
When patients receive care from doctors who are out of network, they can be subject to balance billing; this is particularly common in emergency or hospital care, where the patient may not be notified that a provider is out of network. [22]
[43] [44] He currently serves as a lead independent director [45] of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was the former vice chairman of Shire Pharmaceuticals and was formerly a director of PathAI, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Labs, Quest Diagnostics, and TAP Pharmaceuticals.