(Hartford, CT) -- Attorney General William Tong today announced Connecticut has joined with other states and the federal government to reach a $4 million settlement with CVR Management, LLC, resolving allegations that the company’s multi-state network of vascular medicine clinics billed Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE for medically unnecessary vein treatment procedures.
CVR Management, LLC, a professional services corporation based in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the operations of the Center for Vein Restoration (“CVR”), a group of practices and medical clinics operating in numerous states. CVR will pay the states and the federal government $4 million dollars, of which $ $604,365.07 will go to the Medicaid programs, to resolve civil allegations that CVR’s conduct caused false claims to be submitted to the government health care programs. Connecticut’s Medicaid Program will receive $114,280.07 through this settlement.
Specifically, the settlement resolves allegations that from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2016, CVR billed government health programs for unnecessary chronic venous insufficiency treatments. Chronic venous insufficiency is caused by the improper functioning of vein valves resulting in vein wall weakening that leads to varicose veins, cramping, swelling, discoloration, and sometimes ulcers or skin necrosis on the legs. It can be treated by sclerotherapy, radiofrequency ablation or endovenous laser ablation. But government health programs will...
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