Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces today that the United States has obtained more than $370 million in judgments against a Kentucky businessman and his companies for a laboratory testing scheme that targeted the Medicare program.
In August 2022, the United States filed a complaint-in-intervention against Rajen Shah and his companies United Diagnostics Lab, Tomoka Medical Lab, Tennessee Valley Regional Laboratory, Luminus Diagnostics, and Golden Rule Management for violations of the False Claims Act. The complaint alleged that Shah caused his laboratories to bill Medicare for expensive molecular tests that were not ordered by a licensed healthcare provider.
On September 21, 2023, the district court granted the United States’ motion for default judgment and awarded judgment in favor of the United States and against the defendants in the amount of $105,634,097.50 for Shah, $6,159,118 for Tomoka Medical Lab, Inc., $23,996,305.50 for Tennessee Valley Regional Laboratories, LLC, $75,478,674.00 for Luminus Diagnostics, LLC, $105,634,097.50 for Golden Rule Management, LLC, and $54,587,325.00 for United Diagnostics Lab, LLC.
“The integrity of our healthcare system depends on the government being able to rely on accurate and truthful information submitted by laboratories, and that labs only bill for services ordered by a beneficiary’s doctor or nurse practitioner,” said U.S. Attorney Handberg. “We will continue to hold people accountable when they...
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