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‘Unconventional’ Tests Bring $17 Million False Claims Settlement (1)

April 27, 2020, 9:27 PM; Updated: April 28, 2020, 3:40 PM

A North Carolina-based lab company will pay the federal government up to $43 million to settle allegations that it billed Medicare and other federal programs for unnecessary tests, the Department of Justice said.

Genova Diagnostics Inc. will surrender $17 million in pending claims submitted to Medicare and the TRICARE program, the DOJ said in a statement issued Monday. It also agreed to send the government a percentage of its annual revenues above $100 million for the next five years, not to exceed an additional $26 million.

A whistleblower said Genova focuses on the “functional medicine market,” a form of alternative...

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