Lab Owner Pleads Guilty

Sean Alterman pleaded guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting over $52 million in false and fraudulent claims for genetic testing that Medicare beneficiaries did not need and that were based on prescriptions purchased through illegal kickbacks and bribes. He owned and operated two laboratories: Live Beyond Medical MGMT LLC and Dynix Diagnostics LLC. Patient recruiters used a tactic known as “doctor chasing” – faxing physicians false and misleading requests for prescriptions designed to trick them into signing off on tests their patients did not need. Read a story from CBS 12 and a Department of Justice press release.

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