Health care company to pay $41M in fraud settlement

TAMPA — Surgery Partners and its businesses, Logan Laboratories Inc. and Tampa Pain Relief Centers Inc., have agreed to pay $41 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed they fraudulently billed Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug testing. 

According to a Department of Justice press release, whistleblowers brought the alleged fraud, which occurred from Jan. 1, 2010, through Dec. 31, 2017 — to the attention of the government. The whistleblowers will receive approximately $7.79 million from the settlement, the release states.