Home Health Business Quarterly: Lincare settles Medicare reimbursement inquiry
Home Health Business Quarterly: Lincare settles Medicare reimbursement inquiry
Lincare Holdings Inc. of Clearwater, FL, has agreed to pay the government $3.15 million without admission of wrongdoing to settle a government inquiry begun in 1998. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, CA, investigated some of the company’s California operating centers’ Medicare reimbursement claims for home oxygen and other therapies. As part of the settlement, the company will enter a corporate integrity agreement with the Office of Inspector General covering some centers involved in the investigation.
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