A federal judge has ordered a former Gwinnett County laboratory and its owner to pay more than $315 million in restitution and civil penalties in a civil fraud case involving genetic testing billed to Medicare and Medicaid.
According to a default judgment issued in federal court, Oxy-Gen and its owner, Jean-Francoise Toure, must pay approximately $44 million in restitution to the government and another $270 million in civil penalties.
The judgment stems from allegations that the Norcross laboratory billed government healthcare programs for thousands of expensive genetic tests that patients did not need…