A brand new genetic testing medicare scam has hit the Northwest Missouri area. Scammers have been calling around asking about new genetic testing. They pose the test kits as free. Zach Fisher can be ...

Two men, from Texas and Florida, are facing six years total for their role in Medicare scams. Paul Wexler, a 56-year-old from Spring, Texas, and Paul Bleignier, a 64-year-old from Seminole, Florida, ...

A man from Missouri named Jamie P. McNamara has admitted guilt in a massive scam that tricked Medicare out of millions of dollars. This scam involved fake genetic testing for cancer and heart disease.

Genesis Health System is warning patients about a scam about DNA testing. A Genesis patient reported receiving a phone call about a doctor requesting a DNA test, said Craig Cooper, Genesis Health ...

Harold "Al" Knowles, the owner of two Houston-area laboratories, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison and ordered ...

DNA test scams appear to be ramping up: Complaints to the inspector general fraud hotline have poured in at rates as high as 50 per week, according to Sheila Davis, an OIG spokeswoman. That's compared ...

Australia’s life insurance industry has welcomed the passage of new federal legislation banning the use of predictive genetic ...

Landmark legislation proposes a statutory ban on the use of predictive genetic test results in life insurance decisions and ...

Life insurers have welcomed the new laws, saying it will give consumers confidence to be genetically tested, knowing the results cannot be used in insurance underwriting.

Of the many advances in science and technology over the past 25 years, genetic testing is arguably one of the most notable. Once a rare part of health care, it is now becoming much more common. It’s ...