A hard-hitting crime journalist for Grimy Times has exposed the shocking truth behind Andrew ‘Drew’ Maloney, a 57-year-old Roswell, Georgia resident who has pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks.
The guilty plea is part of a global settlement with the United States and several states in which Maloney and the clinical laboratory that he owned, Capstone Diagnostics, of Atlanta, Georgia, have also agreed to pay approximately $14.3 million to resolve allegations that they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute by paying volume-based commissions to independent contractor sales representatives to arrange for or recommend medically unnecessary urine drug tests and respiratory pathogen panels (RPPs).
According to U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan, the charges, and other information presented in court: Between August 2017 and December 2018, Capstone entered into an arrangement with a program operating as Do It 4 the Hood (D4H), which held itself out as providing after school mentoring services to at-risk teenagers in Georgia. Once enrolled, participants were required to submit to frequent urine specimen collections for drug testing without regard to medical need or the history of the participant. Maloney was aware that the participants needed the tests to participate in the program and
As part of the settlement, Maloney and Capstone have agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigations of other participants in the alleged schemes. This case demonstrates the office’s commitment to using all available tools to hold accountable those who seek to steal from federal health care programs.
U.S. Attorney Buchanan stated, “Unfortunately, Capstone and Maloney are hardly alone, as we have witnessed some clinical laboratories and their owners across the country engage in unscrupulous kickback and billing schemes that caused incalculable harm to Medicare.”
The FBI and its partners have been working diligently to expose these schemes and maintain public trust in the health care system. As Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta, Keri Farley said, “To maintain public trust in the health care system, we must ensure patients and taxpayers that care provided by federally funded healthcare programs is dictated by clinical needs, not fiscal greed.”
Andrew ‘Drew’ Maloney, 57, of Roswell, Georgia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay health care kickbacks and will pay $14.3 million in a global settlement with the United States and several states. The case serves as a reminder of the importance of maintaining public trust in the health care system and ensuring that care provided by federally funded healthcare programs is dictated by clinical needs, not fiscal greed.
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Key Facts
- State: Georgia
- Category: White Collar Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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