Law360, New York (June 1, 2016, 5:26 PM ET) -- A Nashville, Tennessee, drug testing laboratory and its former owner have agreed to pay $9.35 million to settle a whistleblower's allegations that they illegally billed Medicare for patients referred by physicians whose electronic health records systems they helped fund, the U.S. attorney's office announced Wednesday.
As part of the settlement, OPKO Health Inc. and Jonathan Oppenheimer did not admit that they violated the False Claims Act, federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law, which governs physician referrals, as alleged by the government. Oppenheimer has also agreed...