Four Whistleblowers Receive $1.3 Million for Alleging Genetic Testing Fraud Scheme

May declared as IRD and genetic testing month

Prevent Blindness has declared May the second annual inherited retinal disease and genetic testing month, offering free resources on education and other awareness efforts.

Four Whistleblowers Receive $1.3 Million for Alleging Genetic Testing Fraud Scheme

On April 23, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced that genetic testing marketing companies Genexe, LLC, Immerge, Inc., and two executives with ownership interests in the companies, agreed to pay $6 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act through a fraud scheme involving illegal kickbacks and medically […]