A pair of former executives at Malvern-based BioTelemetry accused their former employer of illegally outsourcing Medicare and military heart-patient reviews to India after they left the company — and now stand to collect millions of dollars as whistleblowers.
Calling themselves “John Doe” and “Jack Doe” in court papers, the former senior officials kept anonymous during five years of litigation — but the settlement agreement posted by the Justice Department on Tuesday identifies them as Philip Leone, who joined BioTelemetry’s CardioNet in 2002, rose to head compliance, payments and other departments, and left back in 2011; and Chris Strasinski, a former head of marketing who departed with Leone and two other CardioNet executives to help run a Massachusetts-based rival, InfoBionic Inc.
After filing a lawsuit that drew from their industry knowledge to accuse the company, the pair are splitting $8 million in whistleblower payments, from the resulting $45 million legal settlement between the Justice Department, other federal agencies, and BioTelemetry and its CardioNet division, which develops and sells heart monitoring systems.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia and investigators for military and civilian agencies drew on the men’s allegations when they filed a government lawsuit accusing the companies of illegal outsourcing across national borders. More than 20 states (including New Jersey and Delaware, but not Pennsylvania) also alleged the companies had violated...
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