–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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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…
Zombie Lab Sues Former Execs, Owners, And Sales Force
September 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
–Yet more fallout from the catastrophic bankruptcy of HDL Lab The Zombie Lab case just got even messier. Last Friday the trustee for the bankrupt Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL) filed a massive lawsuit against the former executives, owners, sales force members, and others who profited from HDL. The 205-page lawsuit includes a detailed narrative of…
Documents Reveal Rogue Laboratory Company’s Unorthodox Billing Practices
June 8, 2016 by 4 Comments
–Promised in writing to not bill patients, then changed its tune Records and emails newly posted on the web by a physician document the strategy used by a controversial new laboratory company to bypass laws and major safeguards designed to prevent fraud. Nearly 2 years ago, it became known that the federal government was investigating…
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…
Vampire Lab Turns To Old Trick To Grow Business: Physician Owned Labs
February 11, 2016 by 15 Comments
(Updated) True Health Diagnostics, the new laboratory that bought the assets and adopted the business model of the disgraced and bankrupt laboratory company Health Diagnostic Laboratory (HDL), is turning to some old, unethical, and illegal tricks to grow its business. As I’ve reported previously, one key to the spectacular growth of HDL laboratory involved surreptitious…
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…
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