–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…
Trustee For Zombie Lab Sues Thousands Of Doctors And Dozens Of Nonprofits
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US Freezes Millions Of Dollars In Assets Of Rogue Lab Sales Force
February 14, 2016 by 1 Comment
The US government is freezing millions in dollars in assets from the owners of BlueWave, the sales company that participated in “a massive kickback scheme” involving Health Diagnostics Laboratory (HDL) and a second smaller laboratory company, Singulex, Inc. A US judge last week granted an application from US and state attorneys to ensure that BlueWave…
The Real Losers In The Zombie Versus Vampire Lab Company Court Battle
February 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
(Updated) Right now a dead, bankrupt and corrupt laboratory company is suing an active, morally bankrupt lab company. No matter who eventually wins the court battle all of us– patients, Medicare, insurance companies, not to mention our entire health and legal systems– will lose. Health Diagnostics Laboratory (HDL) is the zombie lab company. After raking…
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…
Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale Of Embattled Diagnostic Lab Company
September 18, 2015 by 1 Comment
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale for $37.1 million of the once high-flying Health Diagnostics Laboratory to a new lab company, True Health Diagnostics. True Health has a business model that mimic’s HDL’s and is owned by some of the same players who helped create and who owned HDL. Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL) was started in 2009. By 2012 the…
Embattled Laboratory Files For Bankruptcy
June 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Health Diagnostic Laboratory, Inc., the embattled lab company, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. The once high flying company, which was founded in 2009 and achieved annual revenue of more than $400 million in a few short years, has been beset by scandal and legal difficulties. Most recently, the US Department of Justice announced that it had reached a…
Inside The Scandal: Profit And Greed At An Embattled Laboratory Company
April 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
How does a clinical laboratory company grow in a few short years from nothing to more than $400 million in revenue and over $100 million in profit? Since the same company just settled with the DOJ for as much as $100 million, it’s reasonable to suspect that growth was probably not entirely legitimate. Now new information,…
DOJ Settles With Embattled Lab, Criminal Charges For Executives Still Possible
April 10, 2015 by Leave a Comment
In line with reports last month, Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc, the embattled lab company, has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice following a lengthy investigation into the company’s business practices, which include giving kickbacks to physicians and additional illegal sales, marketing, and billing practices. HDL will initially pay at least $47 million to the government. … Note to readers: I have received…
More Turmoil For Troubled Medical Laboratory Company
January 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Problems continue to accumulate for the deeply troubled medical laboratory company Health Diagnostic Laboratory. Following several years of spectacular growth, in which the company grew to $400 million in annual revenue, the company last year began an equally spectacular implosion when it became known that the federal government was investigating the company for giving kickbacks to physicians to use the company’s tests….
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