Nevada Advanced Pain Specialists (NAPS), a Reno-based medical practice, has agreed to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims for payment to Medicare for medically unnecessary urine drug testing (UDT). Pursuant to the settlement agreement, NAPS admits that it ordered confirmatory UDT—testing designed to confirm the results of presumptive UDT—despite failing to first obtain presumptive UDT results. In fact, NAPS did not consult the presumptive UDT results before ordering their confirmation but continued to perform presumptive tests in-house and bill Medicare as if they were medically necessary. NAPS admits that its performance of presumptive UDT played no role in its medical decision-making regarding whether to order confirmatory UDT from a clinical laboratory.
