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A Massachusetts medical device manufacturer has agreed to pay the authorities $700,000 to resolve allegations that the company knowingly breached the False Claims Act (FCA).
The company in question is THD America Inc., which is run by parent company THD SpA of Italy (collectively, THD). THD is footing the bill for the FCA breach caused by physicians knowingly submitting incorrect costing codes and billing to Medicare and State Medicaid for a specific medical procedure.
THD’s hemorrhoid removal system is called the Slide One Kit (the Kit), and it was at the center of the breach, with inflated charges and billing being submitted for the medical procedures.
THD to pay $700,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations
“Accurately billing for services provided to Medicare and Medicaid enrollees is required of all health care companies,” said Special Agent in Charge Maureen Dixon of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG).
The United States alleged that, between 2014 and 2017, The Side One Kit was sold to physicians for use in transanal hemorrhoidal dearterialization, a surgical procedure that involves cauterizing certain...
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