Earlier this week, the First Circuit in OMNI Healthcare held that “in FCA cases alleging Medicare fraud based on laboratory testing, generally a laboratory can rely on a doctor’s order to show that the test is ‘reasonable and necessary’” under the Medicare statute.  U.S. ex rel. OMNI Healthcare Inc. v. MD Spine Solutions LLC, No. 25-1110 (1st Cir. Dec. 1, 2025).

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