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Problems Using PCR to Detect SARS-CoV-2
There are numerous problems using rt-PCR for the detection of viruses and for SARS-CoV-2 specifically.
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History of Diagnostic Fraud
Meet the Company That Outlined Its Kickback Scheme in PowerPoint
CBS News Aug 31, 2011 By Jim Edwards - MoneyWatch
The scheme wasn't difficult to figure out – the company described it in PowerPoint slideshows that told employees what “not” to do. Prohibiting employees from breaking the law is fine, of course, but the Labcorp slideshows only made sense if the company knew how to execute a complicated “pull-through” kickback scheme, and knew it was wrong. One PowerPoint had a chapter labelled “Kickbacks.”
In the Labcorp settlement, the company will pay $49.5 million to settle allegations that 5.5 million claims for reimbursement from the state's Medi-Cal program, spread over 14 years through 2009, were overbilled by $72 million. About 79 percent of all Labcorp's Medi-Cal testing invoices were overbilled, the whistleblower lawsuit that triggered the settlement claims.
In May, the state settled a similar case against Quest Diagnostics (DGX) for $241 million. Both companies were accused of doing the same thing: Providing millions of dollars in low-cost or below-cost testing to private insurance companies in return for those companies requiring doctors serving their network to refer Medi-Cal patients to Labcorp and Quest for testing. Labcorp and Quest then billed Medi-Cal much greater amounts for identical tests. Labcorp offered tests to private companies for as little as $1, the suit claims.
Federal prosecutors, however, do not appear to be interested in finding out whether this practice extended into Medicare nationally or other states' Medicaid plans. In the Quest case, which is on appeal, the U.S. Department of Justice officially declined to get involved. In Labcorp and Quest's 10-Q disclosures to the SEC neither company notes any federal investigations or litigation regarding their billing in other states. 1)
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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v4
https://archive.org/details/kary-mullis-the-full-interview-by-gary-null-1996