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An Oviedo medical supply company will pay the government $600,000 to settle allegations that its owners submitted false claims in a scheme to defraud Medicare, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
The settlement arises from the Justice Department’s intervention in a 2014 civil whistleblower lawsuit against Central Medical Systems LLC and its owner Alan Trent Harley over the submission of claims for wound care supplies, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
From 2011 through 2015, Harley submitted more than $870,000 in fraudulent claims to Medicare, prosecutors said. While Harley’s employees gave him accurate data about the wound care supplies sold by Central Medical Systems, he would manipulate the company’s billing software to receive inflated Medicare payments for products that were more expensive or never provided, the release said.
After the government intervened in the whistleblower lawsuit in 2018, Harley and his wife, Joan Harley, allegedly conspired with Arthur Wright and a Maitland medical company, Meddex Solutions, to fraudulently submit Central Medical Systems’ claims through the second company after Medicare suspended its payments, prosecutors said.
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