A hospital, a laboratory, three lab employees, and a referring physician and his office manager have agreed to collectively pay more than $7.2 million dollars to resolve civil allegations that they defrauded federal healthcare programs in connection with laboratory tests that were not medically necessary or were tainted by violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Physicians' Medical Center, LLC, a hospital in New Albany, Indiana, operated a clinical laboratory that was managed by the now-defunct United States Medical Scientific Indiana, LLC. DOJ says PMC violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for laboratory services to Medicare, Kentucky Medicaid, and TRICARE, from December 2016 to September 2018.
