PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Philadelphia region company has agreed to pay $44.875 million to settle allegations that it defrauded U.S. taxpayers by outsourcing critical remote medical services to technicians in India who were not properly trained.
The fraud allegations against Malvern, Pa.-based BioTelemetry, Inc., now a Royal Philips company, emerged through a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Ross Feller Casey, LLP, of Philadelphia, on behalf of former company employees.
Ross Feller Casey's Brian J. McCormick, Jr., a top national whistleblower attorney, said the case centered around allegations that the company improperly billed Medicare and other federal programs for remote heart monitoring services between 2013 and 2022.
With remote heart monitoring, information from a patient's monitoring device is transmitted around the clock to technicians to provide doctors with early indications of trouble.
The company was supposed to perform those vital services in the U.S. but allegedly hired technicians in India instead. Also, the company faced allegations that the technicians in India were not licensed or certified to perform the monitoring, as required by federal law. According to the settlement, fewer than 3 percent of the technicians who reviewed data of U.S. Medicare patients were properly certified.
BioTelemetry was formerly known as CardioNet, LLC, and based in Conshohocken, Pa. BioTelemetry became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Philips in 2021.
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