Senate Finance Committee investigates companies' use of discounts to funnel medical tests their way

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Nov 11 2011

USA Today: Medical Testing Companies' Medicare Deal Scrutinized
The Senate Finance Committee is probing medical testing companies to determine if they offer insurers heavy discounts in exchange for the insurers funneling all of their Medicare tests their way, Senate investigators and a former company employee have told USA Today (Kennedy, 11/10).

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