June 26, 2017
AMI Monitoring Inc. (aka
Spectocor), its owner Joseph Bogdan,
Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC, and
Medicalgorithmics SA, the current majority owner of Medi-Lynx, agreed to pay roughly $13.5 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for higher and more expensive levels of cardiac monitoring services than requested by the ordering physicians. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the
qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by
former Spectocor sales manager Eben Steele. He will receive a
whistleblower award of roughly $2.4 million from the proceeds of the government's recovery.
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