01/16/2025
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Laboratory Corporation of America, Labcorp Tennessee LLC, and University Health System Inc. have paid more than $388,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by delaying the submission of physician orders for certain laboratory tests by Caris Life Sciences Inc. to enable improper billings to Medicare for those tests. According to filed documents, physician orders for testing were delayed – by either holding orders for submission or canceling and resubmitting orders – until 14 days after a Medicare beneficiary’s discharge from the hospital to circumvent Medicare’s Date of Service Rule. Listen to and read a story from WBIR and read a Department of Justice press release.