United Healthcare Wins $128 Million in Lab Fraud Billing Lawsuit

United Healthcare Services Inc. won a $128 million default judgment in its lawsuit accusing a group of medical testing labs of running a fraudulent billing scheme, after a federal judge assessed “case-ending sanctions” over the labs’ destruction of evidence.

The three-page judgment, issued Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, sets forth the amounts owed by a slew of defendants, including Next Health LLC, United Toxicology LLC, US Toxicology LLC, the Apothecary Shop, and Pinnacle Pharmacy.

The judgment follows a March decision in which Judge Brantley Starr sanctioned Next Health for its repeated efforts ...