An alleged $100 million fraud lawsuit over gift cards given to people to urinate in cups at Whataburger bathrooms is heating up in federal court, with each side accusing the other of going too far.
Insurance giant UnitedHealthcare alleges that Next Health, a Dallas lab testing company, paid bribes and kickbacks to doctors and other providers between 2011 and 2016 for ordering overpriced and unnecessary drug and genetic tests under the guise of a wellness study.
Next Health has now struck back with its own allegations, calling the lawsuit a “shakedown” and a “corporate bullying tactic” by United to get out of paying for legitimate lab tests.
Source: Fight between insurance giant, lab over urine tests heats up / The Dallas Morning News