From our friends at The Pathology Blawg:
A federal judge has determined Millennium Laboratories (ML) violated the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) when it provided free point-of-care urine testing (POCT) cups to physicians who bill for urine chemical analysis. The judge also ruled a jury will have to decide whether ML violated the Stark Law and AKS when it provided free POCT cups to physicians who could have billed for POCT but agreed not to.
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