Two related electronic heart monitor companies and their owners have agreed to pay $13.45 million to settle a whistle-blower case alleging they made false claims to Medicare by automatically upgrading physician orders for the devices to more expensive models, the Justice Department announced June 26 (United States ex rel. Doe v. Spectocor Enterprise Servs. LLC, D.N.J., No. 14-1387, settlement 6/26/17).
The defendants—AMI Monitoring Inc. of McKinney, Texas, and a related company, Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC of Plano, Texas, which market the Pocket ECG monitor—didn’t admit to any wrongdoing in agreeing to resolve the case. ...
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