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Baton Rouge health lab owner accused of $15M health care fraud scheme, feds say
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:02 pm
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The owner of a Baton Rouge clinical laboratory is accused of committing health care fraud to the tune of about $15 million dollars, defrauding the federal government and paying and receiving illegal kickbacks, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Malena Lepetich, 38, the owner of MedLogic, LLC., is accused of:
Asking for and getting kickbacks for referrals for medically unnecessary testing of urine specimens
Offering to pay kickbacks for referrals of specimens for COVID and respiratory pathogen testing
Causing the submission of over $10 million in claims for expensive respiratory testing that wasn't medically necessary to Medicare, Medicaid, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana.
The case is being prosecuted by Justin M. Woodward of the Gulf Coast Strike Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristen Craig of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Louisiana.
full story advocate newspaper
the company is located on the campus of lsu.
and since everyone likes pics, here are some that i found:
on the left is her in first pic.
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Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:05 pm to Lincoln Dawson
I’ve got something she can test.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:05 pm to Lincoln Dawson
This is my "I fount a turd in the punchbowl" face:
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Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:07 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Not guilty
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:08 pm to Lincoln Dawson
I would let her test my specimen
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:09 pm to Lincoln Dawson
They must be rounding up a bunch of people at once for this shite. Arkansas had a guy they busted 2 days ago for 88 million.
This post was edited on 5/27/21 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:12 pm to Lincoln Dawson
I don't give a shite what she looks like. If she did that, I hope her life is ruined.
Anyone running schemes with my tax dollars needs to go down.
Anyone running schemes with my tax dollars needs to go down.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:13 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:14 pm to Lincoln Dawson
What a dumb arse and her lips are going to deflat quickly when she can't get them injected in jail.
Kickbacks are one of the biggest things that get people busted for fraud in healthcare and the first thing they talk about during compliance training. Unlike other industries you can't provide much of anything of value (no money, no trips, no tickets, etc) to Physicians for referrals, but idiots are always getting busted trying to provide kickbacks.
Next question, what Dr's was she paying kickbacks to? They need their day in court also.
Kickbacks are one of the biggest things that get people busted for fraud in healthcare and the first thing they talk about during compliance training. Unlike other industries you can't provide much of anything of value (no money, no trips, no tickets, etc) to Physicians for referrals, but idiots are always getting busted trying to provide kickbacks.
Next question, what Dr's was she paying kickbacks to? They need their day in court also.
This post was edited on 5/27/21 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:15 pm to Lincoln Dawson
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2nd glance, 2,1
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2nd glance, 2,1
This post was edited on 5/27/21 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:16 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:31 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Is Baton Rouge the nations leader in health care fraud? I feel like this stiff happens too often in BR for the size of the city
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:32 pm to Lincoln Dawson
She'll be running for Congress in a few months.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:43 pm to Lincoln Dawson
This post was edited on 5/27/21 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 5/27/21 at 12:45 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Looks 48
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:19 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Malena Lepetich? Eastern bloc girl?
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:26 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Anyone convicted of stealing/misusing tax dollars or defrauding the government should pay heavily
The penalties should be extremely severe, to discourage shite like this.
The penalties should be extremely severe, to discourage shite like this.
This post was edited on 5/27/21 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:21 pm to Lincoln Dawson
Shady shite is rampant in Lab companies and pain management clinics.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:27 pm to Lincoln Dawson
The DOJ is so worthless. You have doctors who are bilking medicaid/medicare for hundreds of millions a year in Louisiana and they go after this woman for only $15 million. She must have had some person relationship that went sour with someone in high places for the DOJ to actually move on this.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 3:04 pm to Lincoln Dawson
I mean, those are the type of people who are smart enough to get familiar with the profession, open up and operate a business and being able to maintain it. Even smart enough to find out how to run around and cheat from the government but stupid enough not to know that sooner or later you will get caught. These types of frauds are just a matter of time before getting busted.
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