Legal Opinion
United States v. Thurston
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 4, 2003No. 02-1966, 02-1967PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
William Thurston, a vice president of Damon Clinical Testing Laboratories, Inc., appeals his conviction for conspiring to defraud the Medicare program of over five million dollars. 1 The charged conspiracy involved the manipulation of physicians into ordering unnecessary ferritin blood tests 2 for Medicare beneficiaries in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371.
The essence of the scheme charged was that Damon, through Thurston and others, bundled the ferritin blood test — previously ordered by doctors less than two percent of the time — into a panel of blood tests known as the…
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