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Unethical in every way. You all got away with it for now.
Unethical in every way. You all got away with it for now.
This is great stuff.
http://pathologyblawg.com/pathology...sciences-proceed-almost-untouched/#more-10039
The relators allege Caris:
stopped billing hospitals for the technical component (TC) of its Target Now test so as to keep its referral stream intact, which amounts to an illegal kickback;
-Kind of like how Precision used to tell the doctors and hospitals that they wouldn't balance bill the patient. Whatever we got from medicare was good enough.
began marketing Target Now as a test to guide first-line therapy, even though Caris knew the test was “of unproven clinical benefit” in that setting, and therefore the resulting Medicare charges were “not reasonable and necessary”;
-This also sounds familiar. "doc, when a patient shows up resistant to taxol/carbo watch them for a few weeks, then make the change if you see no improvement."
received induced specimen referrals from oncologists to whom Caris gave kickbacks in the form of airfare, ground transportation, food and “luxury hotel accommodations” to meetings Caris sponsored in which attendees were also paid $1500 if they would give a 30 min Caris-created talk to their clinical colleagues after the conference; and
-WOW!!! PTI wrote the book on this one. The observational study was the biggest inducement in the history of medical sales.
Get ready... It's coming!
Just another former jag bag of PTI. Get a life jackass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously I struck a nerve. I've got a great case, plenty of documentation, emails, etc... to prove it. Thanks for putting all of those conference calls online all those years! You think this is hard to prove? How basically a doctor would not be sending until we offered to pay them per patient to be part of the observational study, then magically the specs would start flying in? Thats called inducement, and it makes every specimen that comes in from that physician "damages". Then there's the stark violations... Where do I even begin here... Imagine what an audit would turn up? Half of these doctors listed on expense reports probably have no idea this company exist, let alone had lunch/dinner with the rep. Statute of limitations can go back 8 years... Good luck "jab bag".