CodeMap® Compliance Briefing: April 30, 2015

Editor's Welcome:

In the last few years, the federal government has launched more investigations and enforcement actions concerning clinical laboratories than we have seen since the late 1990s. As most of you have probably read and/or heard, HDL laboratories of Richmond, Virginia recently entered into a settlement agreement with the federal government for $47 million. Just about every trade publication, law firm, and federal agency remotely connected to the clinical laboratory industry has reported this enforcement action. Today, rather than rehash all the details of this story, we are going to discuss some of the overlooked aspects of this enforcement action that may signal new directions the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Officer of Inspector G....

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