Zachary lab owner faces Medicare, Medicaid fraud charges

I only read the title. Is the dog ok?

Greed'll getcha every time

I wonder who he pissed off.

Maybe our medical insurance will drop.

Original Medicare is an absolute joke. A complete waste of money unless you're one of the thousands of physicians, facilities or systems that abuse, fraud or overuse it to the tune of $100+ billion each year.

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I wonder who he pissed off.

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Not sure but there was a "whistleblower" who turned them in for a kickback scheme where they were working with doctors across the nation. Below is the video/article from 4 years ago. I am assuming he did not "make it right" to the powers that be during that investigation and now they are in more trouble.

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He billed the 22+ target code, not the 9 or 12.
That bills $296 plus the collection and some other LC/GC MS codes that can bundle up to about ~$400. About 3-3,200 urines a month.

Eta: your 9 panel is a screen, which bills for $35. The way you crank the billing up is by performing a confirmation through LC/GC MS. We were running 1,000 a month.

Health Care provides that defraud Medicare and Medicaid should be tossed in prison for LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG sentences and non-violent drug offenders released. The damage done to society by the former is far greater than that done by the latter. The problem is there probably wouldn't be but about 5% of providers left in the country....the other 95% would be in jail.

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drug testing of urine samples

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I know that some of the pain docs have installed their own labs in their offices, it may be just bad info, but the word you get is that the lab is a huge money maker.

To my limited knowledge the lab test is required prior to writing the scripts.

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To my limited knowledge the lab test is required prior to writing the scripts.

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They apparently test you whenever you come in, nominally because if you are on pain meds they want to see the levels coming back out of you.


Too high is bad because it is abuse. But too low and they accuse you of selling your meds.

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Health Care provides that defraud Medicare and Medicaid should be tossed in prison for LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG sentences


What about the people that abuse it?

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Of course they should be treated the same way...but very few people are in a position to abuse it like health care providers can.

My father, in my opinion, abuses it...he gets shoes for "free" because he is diabetic. He can afford the damn things and when he gets them he doesn't wear them and winds up giving them away...but by god he is entitled to them so he is going to get them. His doctor that orders them knows this...I have told him, my wife has told him, and the Doctor's take is that he is entitled why not get them. I have managed to get him to go to 3 different doctors thinking one of them would have the integrity to tell him no...none have yet, and for one reason. They are getting paid to see him. They are a bunch of crooks, the lot of them, and they can claim to see hundreds of people like my dad a week when only 40-50 could possibly actually show up....