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Texas Laboratory Agrees To Pay $5.9 Million To Settle Allegations Of Kickbacks To Third Party Marketers And Unnecessary Drug Tests
Published by the United States Department of Justice | View article on www.justice.gov
Genotox Laboratories Ltd., of Austin, Texas, has agreed to pay at least $5.9 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it paid volume-based commissions to third party marketers in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and submitted claims to federal health care programs for unnecessary drug tests. In parallel proceedings, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas and Genotox entered into an eighteen-month Deferred Prosecution Agreement to resolve a criminal investigation regarding the same conduct.