North Carolina doctor will pay more than $600,000 over laboratory kickback scheme allegations

Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A North Carolina doctor agreed to pay more than a half million dollars in fines to settle with the federal government over allegations he and his practice took covered-up kickbacks from a medical company, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.

Illegal kickback payments to healthcare providers "can undermine the integrity of taxpayer-funded healthcare programs and medical decision making," Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, said in a release.

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