The Washington Attorney General’s Office is suing test center The Center for COVID Control this week, along with its partner laboratory, the Doctors Clinical Laboratory, for allegedly providing false test results, failing to perform results and storing tests in garbage bags, among others. things. The Illinois-based COVID Control Center has more than 275 pop-up locations in the United States.
The Washington state lawsuit comes about two weeks after the Minnesota Attorney General filed a lawsuit.
He also follows an inspection of the partner lab by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (also known as CMS), according to Block Club Chicago. The CMS found discrepancies and deficiencies in the lab, the outcome said, saying the lab was in “immediate danger” after workers were observed not following rapid test procedures and after errors prevented tens of thousands of PCR tests from being processed.
The FBI also searched the headquarters of the COVID Control Center, USA Today reported.
All locations of the COVID Control Center will be closed until further notice, according to a statement on the company’s website. During the break, the company said it would train additional staff to collect and process samples, as well as other best practices. The company advertises free home, fast and PCR tests.
The COVID Control Center and the Clinical Laboratory of Physicians did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Several publications reported complaints from people who said they were on site for testing at the COVID Control Center.
Complaints include waiting weeks for results or receiving a negative test result at the COVID Control Center, but a positive test on another site, Block Club reported. The publication also reported that the biohazardous waste in the facility was dumped as ordinary garbage and that an employee said that the workers shared information about customers through WhatsApp.
The Minnesota lawsuit, filed Jan. 19, alleges that the Clinical Laboratory of Physicians sent COVID-19 test results to the U.S. Department of Health, which showed a positive percentage of 74 percent – more than 10 times that of the state over the same period.
The Minnesota case also argues that business owners may overestimate the federal government for what it has to pay for COVID-19 tests for the uninsured. The drop-down menu for patient insurance information, according to the lawsuit, does not include most insurance companies that are actually available in Minnesota, directing employees to choose the default option “uninsured.” The doctors’ clinical laboratory has charged the federal government more than $ 113 million in reimbursement across the country, the lawsuit said.
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