Friday, March 27, 2015

Clinical Laboratory Compliance: Something Old, Something New Melissa Scott, BS, CHC, CPC and Dinh Nguyen, MT(ASCP), CHC--Clinical laboratories were the first health care entities to come under regulatory scrutiny by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) as far back as 1992. The OIG had embarked on Project Lab Scam to investigate fraudulent billing practices by clinical laboratories. As a result, Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) was fined and paid $187 million to resolve civil penalties under the False Claim Act (FCA) for allegedly submitting claims for medically unnecessary tests.

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