June 29, 2017

Innovative Therapies, Inc. and its parent company Cardinal Health, Inc. agreed to pay roughly $2.7 million to settle charges they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare through their marketing of certain negative pressure wound treatment devices as durable medical equipment when they knew these devices did not have the expected life of a durable device.  The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by a former ITI employee.  The whistleblower will receive an award of $488,700 from the proceeds of the government’s recovery.  DOJ (MDTN)

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