Diagnostics Company To Pay Up To $43M Over False Claims Allegations

(April 30, 2020, 2:02 PM EDT) -- ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A clinical laboratory services company entered into an agreement in federal court in North Carolina to pay up to $43 million to resolve claims brought by a whistleblower doctor, the federal government and the state in a False Claims Act (FCA) suit alleging that it submitted fraudulent bills for tests that were not medically necessary, according to April 27 court filings (United States, ex rel. Daryl Landis v. Genova Diagnostics Inc., No. 17-341, W.D. N.C.)....