-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, SfYpOJsC5A77knFTuhoixW876RRp7zKsVCl4xhSsLUcnAPb8YOQeP8was9mActng jhb6rU5Yb5Kr/Z5kPXg8pw== 0000950117-06-002337.txt : 20060519 0000950117-06-002337.hdr.sgml : 20060519 20060519163829 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950117-06-002337 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060515 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20060519 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060519 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001022079 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-MEDICAL LABORATORIES [8071] IRS NUMBER: 161387862 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12215 FILM NUMBER: 06855783 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE MALCOLM AVE CITY: TETERBORO STATE: NJ ZIP: 07608 BUSINESS PHONE: 2013935000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE MALCOLM AVE CITY: TETERBORO STATE: NJ ZIP: 07601 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: CORNING CLINICAL LABORATORIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960903 8-K 1 a42070.htm QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): May 15, 2006

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated

1290 Wall Street West

Lyndhurst, NJ 07071

(201) 393-5000

001-12215

(Commission file number)

Delaware

(State of Incorporation)

16-1387862

(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

Item 8.01

Other Events

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated has received a subpoena from the California Attorney General’s Office. The subpoena seeks various documents including documents relating to billings to MediCal, the California Medicaid program. The subpoena seeks documents from various time frames ranging from three to ten years. Quest Diagnostics will cooperate with the California Attorney General’s Office in responding to the subpoena.

Signatures

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	May 19, 2006

	QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED
	By:__/s/ Leo C. Farrenkopf, Jr.___________
		Leo C. Farrenkopf, Jr. Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary

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