LABCORP AGREES TO PAY $14.5 MILLION FOR TESTING FRAUD

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

BOSTON - Laboratory Corporation of America (Labcorp), a national diagnostics testing laboratory, has agreed to pay $14.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting medically unnecessary claims for urine drug testing (UDT) to Medicare for payment.

Labcorp offered clients a testing panel called "Toxassure Comprehensive," which contained both "Presumptive" and "Definitive" testing methods. Generally, Presumptive UDT detects the presence or absence of certain drug classes subject to thresholds, while Definitive UDT identifies individual substances and their conc...