Operation LabScam

Operation LabScam was a United States government investigation in the 1990s by a seven-member taskforce into laboratory billing fraud resulting in $800 million in fines.[1][2][3][4]

Fraudulent billing practices included labs were billing Medicare and other government healthcare programs for medically unnecessary tests, upcoded tests, tests that were never conducted, and providing kickbacks to physicians.

The following labs were implicated: Damon Clinical Laboratories, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL), Corning Life Sciences, Liberty Testing Laboratory.

References

  1. ^ Harris, Mark (1 December 1998). "Raising the Bar on Medicare Compliance". Laboratory Medicine. 29 (12): 740–746. doi:10.1093/labmed/29.12.740.
  2. ^ Roberts, Douglas E.; Raspanti, Marc S.; Brecht, Pamela C. (September 2016). "A new era of laboratory fraud, Part 1: Operation LabScam redux" (PDF). Compliance Today: 22–25.
  3. ^ 45 U.S. Att'ys Bull. 31 (1997) Successful LabCorp Settlement a Result of Operation LABSCAM
  4. ^ Sparrow, Malcolm K. (14 December 2007). License To Steal: Updated Edition. Basic Books. pp. 16–18. ISBN 978-0-465-01074-5. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
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