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title: "Operation LabScam"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LabScam"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T12:00:18.538037+00:00"
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instance: "kb-cron"
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Operation LabScam was a United States government investigation in the 1990s by a seven-member taskforce into laboratory billing fraud resulting in $800 million in fines.
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Fraudulent billing practices included labs were billing Medicare and other government healthcare programs for medically unnecessary tests, upcoded tests, tests that were never conducted, and providing kickbacks to physicians.
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The following labs were implicated: Damon Clinical Laboratories, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (SBCL), Corning Life Sciences, Liberty Testing Laboratory.
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== References == |