![]() And this is not the first recent criminal case that the USAO in Nashville has brought relating to genetic testing. The USAO cases referenced in the link above are FCA resolutions involving alleged violations of the AKS.īut Alshalabi is facing up to ten years in prison if convicted. The AKS is a criminal statute, but the government often chooses to enforce it through civil FCA cases because of the ostensibly lower burden of proof and availability of treble damages. What is interesting is that Alshalabi is facing criminal charges. The Middle District of Tennessee itself has a record of pursuing kickback cases against pathology laboratories. After all, the government has a history of pursuing False Claims Act (FCA) cases relating to genetic testing. It is not unexpected that the government is pursuing an enforcement action in a case like this. Over a four-year period, the government paid Crestar almost $14 million on allegedly tainted Medicare claims. Alshalabi paid illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the doctor’s orders and tests, without regard to any medical necessity. Often, the patients or their treating physicians never received the results of the tests. The tests were then approved by telemedicine doctors who did not engage in the treatment of the patients, and often did not even speak with the patients for whom they ordered tests. Marketers, who were not health care professionals, obtained swabs from the mouths of the patients at nursing homes, senior health fairs, and elsewhere. The government alleges that Alshalabi and Crestar paid illegal kickbacks “in exchange for the solicitation of genetic tests from Medicare beneficiaries.” Specifically, AlshalabiĬontracted with marketing companies to target and recruit elderly patients who were federal health care program beneficiaries in order to obtain their genetic material for conducting genetic tests. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee (USAO) announced that it had charged Fadel Alshalabi, the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Spring Hill, Tennessee’s Crestar Labs, LLC (Crestar), with violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) for his role in orchestrating a Medicare fraud scheme relating to genetic testing of cancer patients. Tools like this don't offer security when they can access foundational aspects of the OS.Earlier this month, the U.S. They want security rather than flexibility which is inherently insecure. They built the platform, they built the services, they can do whatever they want with it. It's got nothing to do with the bollocks claim Apple has a monopoly. ![]() Most people just want their system to work without any hassles. If you're happy with that then good luck to you. 3rd party apps like this create a HUGE security threat. I think the real question is why do these apps need to exist in the first place? There are already systems in place that allow a lot of these functions to happen with AppleScript and Automator/Shortcuts. Hint for EU anti-trust regulators: Ask Apple why this is happening? Ask why these types of apps that can't exist on the Mac App Store don't exist at all on the iPhone? Ask why Apple forces users to side load them on the Mac? Ask Apple why choices about what software you can run should be an Apple monopoly? It is a lot worse on iOS where Apple forbids users to side load apps onto phones, tablets, watches, Apple TVs, Car Play, etc. Lots of apps are leaving the App Store not because how much Apple charges developers but because of the restrictions Apple places on developers and users of third party apps.
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