Editor’s note: the following article is reprinted with permission from Kaiser Health News. Links to previous CardioBrief coverage of the laboratory scandal story can be found at the bottom of the page. by Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News CEDARVILLE, Calif. — Beau Gertz faced a crowd of worried locals at this town’s senior center,…
Outsiders Swoop In Vowing To Rescue Rural Hospitals Short On Hope — And Money
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Trustee For Zombie Lab Sues Thousands Of Doctors And Dozens Of Nonprofits
June 12, 2017 by 4 Comments
–The suits unveil the scope and sordid details of the massive kickback scheme. Thousands of doctors are being sued by the trustee representing the creditors of Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL), the bankrupt laboratory company. The trustee is demanding that the doctors repay thousands of dollars in illegal processing and handling (P&H) fees, a key part…
Seeking Profit and Investors, Rogue Lab Moves Into Small Hospitals
December 9, 2016 by 6 Comments
A controversial new laboratory company specializing in “advanced cardiovascular risk testing” is developing an innovative, highly profitable– and legally dubious– new business model. Details of the scheme are spelled out in a “Management Presentation” slide presentation sent to me by a confidential source. The slide presentation, according to my source, is being shown by executives at True Health…
The Billion Dollar Lab Scandal
July 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment
If you think Theranos is a big story then I have some news for you. There’s another medical laboratory scandal that dwarfs the Theranos story by almost any standard except for hype. The Theranos story is an important sexy Silicon Valley story. It’s more about an imagined shimmering future than about the greasy present we actually…
A Lab Industry Veteran Deciphers The Zombie Lab Enigma
January 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
True Health Diagnostics (THD) is the new, rapidly growing lab that bought the assets of the disgraced and bankrupt Health Diagnostic Lab (HDL). (See the bottom of this story for links to my previous coverage of this story.) I asked one industry veteran for his thoughts on THD’s business practices and the relationship between THD…
New Lab Company Seeks To Bury Links To Zombie Lab And Rogue Sales Team
January 24, 2016 by 1 Comment
A new, rapidly growing laboratory company has been publicly linked to a disgraced and now bankrupt laboratory company and its sales team. Now the new company, True Health Diagnostics (THD), is trying to distance itself from that lab company, Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL), and its affiliated sales team, BlueWave. But THD’s claim of independence falls…
Zombie Laboratory Company Sics Bill Collectors On Patients Promised Free Tests
January 7, 2016 by 17 Comments
(Updated) In several short years Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL) achieved spectacular growth partially on the promise to customers that they would never be responsible for the high costs of the company’s tests. Now, after bankruptcy and a forced sale of the company following multi-million dollar lawsuits by the Federal government and large private insurance companies, those same…
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