Sunrise Clinical Lab must repay New Jersey Medicaid $3,437,006 following an audit released Thursday, March 6 by the Office of the State Comptroller.
The audit also found Sunrise failed to perform tests ordered by doctors in 44 separate instances, 24%, potentially compromising patient care, the comptroller said. Sunrise violated Medicaid regulations in 52 episodes in which documentation failed to comply with legal requirements, the comptroller’s office said.
When auditors interviewed the doctors from the drug treatment facilities associated with the 44 unsigned test orders, one revealed that a Sunrise employee affixed the physician’s stamp to test orders, while another stated that its facility had an employee of a different laboratory, not Sunrise, collect specimens and likewise affix doctor stamps on their behalf, OSC said…