Doctor Charged in Urine Drug Testing Scheme

Dr. Michael W. Dole has been charged for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $32.7 million by submitting claims for medically unnecessary definitive urine drug testing services. According to court documents, Dole owned and operated a pain management practice that had an in-house drug testing laboratory. Dole allegedly billed Medicare routinely for definitive testing of over 22 classes of drugs in urine specimens from nearly all his patients, despite a lack of documentation of use or suspicion of use of those drugs by the patients. Read a Department of Justice press release.

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