Article: Quest to pay $11.35 min in whistle-blower case.(Newswire)

Quest Diagnostics Inc. has agreed to pay $11.35 million to settle a 1997 whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that Quest billed Medicare for unnecessary blood tests. From 1990 to 1997, Quest predecessor companies (MetPath Inc., Damon Corp. and Unilab Corp. which was acquired in 2003) had automatically included apolipoprotein tests when doctors ordered a panel of blood tests for heart risk evaluation, charged the lawsuit. Doctors were unaware that the companies had ...

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