The owner of a genetic testing company in Middle Tennessee has been sentenced to five years in prison after his conviction in a kickback scheme.
Prosecutors said the company, Crestar Labs in Spring Hill, billed Medicare and Medicaid more than $100 million for lab tests that patients’ doctors did not authorize.
Fadel Alshalabi, the owner of Crestar Labs, which operated laboratories in Texas, Maryland and Tennessee, was found guilty of money laundering and of violating a federal anti-kickback law by a federal jury in October. He was sentenced to five years in prison at a sentencing hearing June 25…