AGREEMENT PRESS RELEASE
Cardiac Monitoring Companies and Executive Agree to Pay $13.45 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Published by the United States Department of Justice | View article on www.justice.gov
AMI Monitoring Inc. aka Spectocor, its owner, Joseph Bogdan, Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, and Medicalgorithmics SA, the current majority owner of Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for higher and more expensive levels of cardiac monitoring services than requested by the ordering physicians, the Department of Justice announced today. Spectocor and Bogdan have agreed to pay $10.56 million, and Medi-Lynx and Medicalgorithmics have agreed to pay $2.89 million.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring Agreed to Pay $71,000 for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Employing an Excluded Individual
Penalty Amount: $0
Filed under: CIA Reportable Events
After it disclosed conduct to OIG pursuant to its CIA, Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring, LLC (Medi-Lynx), entered into a $71,595.27 settlement agreement with OIG. OIG alleged that Medi-Lynx employed an individual that it knew or should have known was excluded from participation in Federal health care programs.