A vascular medicine firm settled for $4.7 million with the Department of Justice as well as eight states, including Maryland, and two whistleblowers, who accused the firm of billing government health plans for medically unnecessary vein treatments.
The Justice Department moved last week to dismiss its False Claims Act suits against CVR Management, LLC, which manages operations for the Center for Vein Restoration, after the Greenbelt-based firm and its CEO agreed to pay $3.3 million to the federal government.
The defendants did not respond to a request for comment.
An additional $604,000 will go to state Medicaid programs, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown‘s office said in a Tuesday news release. Maryland, which led the coalition of eight Medicaid-participating states suing, will receive over $168,700, to be shared with the federal government, according to Brown’s office.
The settlement stems from two qui tam lawsuits filed at the U.S. District Courts in Maryland and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Two former CVR employees — Baltimore-based surgical assistant Karen Fulton and a Jane...
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