Lab Employee Pleads Guilty: An employee of a South Florida medical billing company on March 7 pleaded guilty in connection with a $2.1 million Medicare laboratory billing scheme. Defendant Lenka Slepickova pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to one count of health care fraud conspiracy. The case against Slepickova arose from billings submitted from 2004 through 2006 by Washington Medical Laboratory Inc., a former Hallandale clinical laboratory, for services not provided. In April 2007, Slepickova’s employer and the laboratory’s owner, Marcelo de Jesus Serrano, was sentenced to 57 months in prison.

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April 2008 - Table of Contents

GCR April 2008 (full PDF issue)

California Court to Rule on Injunction in Lab Competitive Bidding Suit

OIG Cites High-Risk Areas, Management Challenges

HHS Proposes Medical Error Reporting System

DOJ Objects to False Claims Act Amendments

Genetic Testing: An Evolving Market

Connecticut Hospital Reaches False Claims Settlement

Drug Company May Put Kiosk in Docs’ Offices, Says OIG

Data Lacking on Reprocessed Medical Devices: GAO

News in Brief (0804)