.Bioran Laboratories of Cambridge, Massachusetts (now owned by Corning Inc.), paid the United States $6,675,000 to settle allegations that it routinely and automatically performed both an automated series of tests using a discrete analyzer machine, commonly known as a SMAC machine, as well as iron tests whenever a chemistry profile was ordered. Bioran was billing Medicare approximately $27 every time an automated series was ordered, instead of the appropriate $17...
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