tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 35

LAB SCAM RINGLEADER WINS RECORD-BREAKING SENTENCE

High profile sentence casts spotlight on lab fraud.A high-profile Sept. 8 fraud sentence could rile up fraud enforcers on the topic of clinical laboratory-related abuses of government health care programs. Surinder Singh Panshi was sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to an elaborate Medi-Cal fraud scheme, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer reports. The sentence is the longest for Medi-Cal fraud in state history. According to Lockyer, Panshi orchestrated a scheme under which 15 clinical labs billed Medi-Cal for tests that were never authorized and/or never performed. Panshi and others stole patient information, usurped physicians' identities...

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