July 20, 2020

Drug testing laboratory Sterling Healthcare Opco, LLC, doing business as Cordant Health Solutions will pay $12 million to resolve allegations in a False Claims Act case brought by a whistleblower that it paid unlawful kickbacks to Northwest Physicians Laboratories, LLC and Genesis Marketing Group in exchange for referrals of urine drug tests paid for by federal healthcare programs and performed at Cordant labs in Tacoma (Regional Toxicology Services LLC d/b/a Sterling Reference Laboratory) and Denver (Rocky Mountain Tox LLC d/b/a Forensic Laboratories).  The whistleblower will receive 20% of the settlement, or approximately $2.4 million.  USAO WD WA

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