Government details case against bankrupt cardiac biomarker lab
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint alleging BlueWave HealthCare Consultants paid doctors around $68 million in illegal kickbacks to order blood tests from Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL), the Wall Street Journal reports.
HDL founder Tonya Mallory received at least $26 million from the company, while BlueWave received $223 million in commissions over five years. HDL recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Read more at the link below:
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.