BOSTON, Dec. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Whistleblower Law Collaborative LLC is pleased to announce that the United States has settled a False Claims Act case brought by one of its clients. Under the terms of the settlement, BioTelemetry, Inc. and LifeWatch Services, Inc. ("Defendants") will pay $12,936,574, plus interest, to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to federal health programs for mobile cardiac telemetry services.
Defendants market ambulatory heart monitoring devices and services to health care providers. These include cardiac event monitoring and mobile cardiac telemetry. Federal health insurance programs reimburse telemetry services at a much higher rate than event monitoring. One of Defendants' products was LifeWatch's MCT-3L device, which it marketed as capable of performing three different types of heart monitoring services – Holter, event monitoring, and telemetry. Our client's complaint alleged that the online enrollment portal for the MCT-3L forced clinical staff to select telemetry even when doctors had ordered event monitoring, which was much less expensive. As a result, Defendants received the highest level of reimbursement regardless of medical necessity or reasonableness by submitting false claims to Medicare and other federal insurance programs.
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