July 30, 2008
A Maryland pathologist has agreed to pay the United States $457, 379 to settle claims that she billed Medicare and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for medically unnecessary services and services not rendered.
Shahla Moshiri, who owns and operates Chesapeake Diagnostics Laboratory, billed the health care programs for the physician interpretation of Pap smears that were not abnormal and therefore did not warrant such interpretation.