Healthcare company pays Washington more than $1M for overbilling
A healthcare company was ordered to pay the state of Washington more than $1 million, according to a news release from the AG ...
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Lincare settles Medicaid investigation
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington state Attorney General’s Office has announced that Lincare has agreed to pay $1.15 million for allegedly overbilling Medicaid for rental oxygen equipment ...
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A Strange Alliance: Oxygen Companies and Their Medicare Patients Want Congress to Pay the Companies More
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For years, the home-oxygen industry has failed in ...
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Florida medical device company ordered to pay $1.1M to Washington state
Clearwater, Fla.-based Lincare, a medical equipment company, has been ordered to pay $1.15 million to reimburse Washington's Medicaid program for alleged fraudulent overbilling of leased oxygen ...
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Company with Spokane Valley location reimburses state in Medicaid fraud case
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is touting a Medicaid Fraud Control investigation for a ...
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Some patients who have suffered at the hands of Lincare and Philips Respironics have joined forces with these corporations to lobby for an end to Medicare’s competitive bidding process for oxygen and ...
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Healthcare company pays Washington more than $1M for overbilling
The AG’s Office stated a Medicaid Fraud Control Division investigation revealed Lincare Inc., which provides oxygen tanks, overbilled its patients. Therefore, the company was ordered to pay out ...