Compliance Week

Lincare to pay $26M over Medicare billing violations

Lincare, a supplier of durable medical equipment (DME), agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle allegations it billed federal health programs for the rental of ventilator machines after patients no ...
Compliance Week

Lincare to pay $29M over false claims for improperly billing Medicare

A Florida-based provider of oxygen equipment for patients with respiratory ailments agreed to pay $29 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently overbilling ...
KWQC

2 DOJ settlements, $54.5M: Lincare accused of improper Medicare billing for ventilators and oxygen

(KWQC) - Lincare Inc. has agreed to pay more than $54 million in two separate federal health care fraud settlements in 2023 and 2024, according to news releases from the U.S. Department of Justice. In ...
JD Supra

Investigations Newsletter: Medical Supplier Agrees to Pay $29 Million for FCA Violations

Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and medical supplier Lincare Holdings Inc. reached an agreement to settle claims that Lincare violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by overcharging ...
MM&M

How Lincare became a multibillion-dollar Medicare scofflaw

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Such ...