Supreme Court Passes on Challenge to $114 Million Kickback Case

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it declined to review a challenge to an appeals court decision upholding a $114 million verdict finding that the co-owner of a marketing firm and others engaged in a blood test kickback scheme to defraud Medicare.

The government convinced a jury that two laboratory companies paid commissions to Floyd Calhoun Dent III’s marketing firm Bluewave Healthcare Consultants Inc. based on blood-test sales numbers and that this violated the Anti-Kickback Statute.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the award, ruling that Dent and others knowingly made unlawful payments to salespeople ...