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CRUSHing Lab Fraud: Three Myths that Derail Real Reform

Leeza Osipenko Ekaterina Cleary Julie Egginton By JULIE EGGINGTON, EKATERINA CLEARY & LEEZA OSIPENKO When CMS issued its Request for Information under the Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious Healthcare (CRUSH) initiative in February, it zeroed in on a long-festering problem: fraud, waste, and abuse in laboratory testing, especially in genetic and molecular diagnostics. The laboratory industry will respond. And when it does, its arguments will sound polished, familiar, and deeply reassuring. They will also be either disingenuous or unproven. If policymakers want...