ATLANTA, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
ATLANTA -The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Jay Johnson, the former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the Atlanta-based clinical laboratory Capstone Diagnostics, LLC ("Capstone"); Austin Whiles, Capstone's former Chief Sales Officer and Vice President of Business Development; and associated entities. The complaint alleges that the defendants caused Medicare to pay approximately $13.7 million for genetic and respiratory pathogen panel testing that was not medically necessary. Johnson also faces criminal health care and wire fraud charges ar...