Investigations Newsletter: Testing Facility Settles $2.5 Million Anti-Kickback Lawsuit

On May 15, the US Attorneys for the Southern District of New York announced that they had settled their civil fraud lawsuit against Balance Diagnostics USA, LLC, a diagnostic testing facility based in Cedarhurst, New York, for paying kickbacks to physicians and their medical practices in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Investigations Newsletter: Testing Facility Settles $2.5 Million Anti-Kickback Lawsuit

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