April 24, 2019

Two executives of Arriva Medical, LLC, a mail-order diabetic testing supply company acquired by Alere, Inc. in 2011, will pay a total of $1 million to settle claims that they caused Arriva to submit false claims to Medicare by supplying patients with free or no cost home blood glucose meters, waiving patient copayments, and billing for medically unnecessary home blood glucose meters.  USAO MD TN;  2021 settlement with Arriva here

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