Here are five key points:
1. The company, which runs clinics under the name Coastal Spine and Pain, will pay the federal government $7.4 million.
2. The company fraudulently billed Medicare for unnecessary patient drug tests.
3. Physicians Group Services ordered initial drug screenings for patients, but subsequently ordered expensive and unneeded follow-up tests in every case.
4. The company then billed Medicare for these unnecessary follow-up tests.
5. The fraudulent billing was detected after a review of the company’s claims data.
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