Details were recently made public of a suit against Quest Diagnostics Inc. accusing the medical lab company—the country’s largest—of charging Virginia’s Medicaid program rates higher than those charged other customers. The suit, which was unsealed last month, originated as a qui tam action under the state’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Among the allegations is a claim that Quest charged Medicaid as much as $10.42 for a blood test that normally ran $1.42.

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