{"id":18168,"date":"2025-02-01T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T05:39:53","slug":"ag-labrador-announces-settlement-in-medicaid-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/ag-labrador-announces-settlement-in-medicaid-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Labrador Announces Settlement in Medicaid Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>For Immediate Release<\/strong><br><strong>January 29, 2025<\/strong><br>Media Contact: Dan Estes<br><a href=\"mailto:daniel.estes@ag.idaho.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">daniel.estes@ag.idaho.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Attorney General Labrador Announces Settlement in Medicaid Fraud Case<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[BOISE] \u2013 <\/strong>Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador announced a $219,321.25 settlement in a Medicaid fraud investigation into Precision Diagnostics for allegedly false claims between January 2013 and December 2022, submitted to the Idaho Medicaid Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claims for medically unnecessary drug analysis tests were allegedly submitted by doctors that received free drug-testing supplies from Precision Diagnostics in exchange for laboratory testing referrals in violation of state and federal anti-kickback laws. This state settlement was part of a larger nationwide investigation into Precision Diagnostics\u00a0and a settlement totaling $27 million dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is essential that all agents and actors of Medicaid are held to the highest standard of scrutiny when conducting business with taxpayer dollars,&#8221; said Attorney General Labrador. &#8220;This settlement returns funds back into the program designed to provide health services to Idahoans, not to fraudulently line the pockets of contractors and providers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was investigated by the Attorney General&#8217;s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare&#8217;s Medicaid Division. Precision Diagnostics has already submitted the first of five annual restitution payments and Idaho&#8217;s share of $69,220.28 will be returned to the Medicaid Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate ReleaseJanuary 29, 2025Media Contact: Dan Estesdaniel.estes@ag.idaho.gov Attorney General Labrador Announces Settlement in Medicaid Fraud Case [BOISE] \u2013 Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador announced a $219,321.25 settlement in a Medicaid fraud investigation into Precision Diagnostics for allegedly false claims between January 2013 and December 2022, submitted to the Idaho Medicaid Program. Claims for medically unnecessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":11529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1280,1370],"class_list":["post-18168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fraud","tag-medicaid","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18169,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions\/18169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}