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National Cardio Labs to pay $3.6 million to solve allegations of defrauding federal health programs
By BNO News
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) – National Cardio Labs, a company that offered heart monitoring services, will pay $3.6 million as a settlement to resolve allegations that it defrauded federal health programs, prosecutors announced on Thursday.
The company, its manager Adrienne Stanman, and her husband Robert Parsons, both of Laguna Niguel, California, are the co-defendants. They defrauded Medicare, Tricare, and health insurance carriers contracted through the government for the Federal Employee Health Benefit s Program.
Between January 1998 and February 2004, the National Cardio Labs submitted false claims to federal health insurance program. During this time, National Cardio Labs was operating as an independent diagnostic testing facility that received, analyzed, and printed out data from Holter heart monitors and other medical devices.
In late May the defendants paid the U.S. nearly $2.3 million and agreed that they keep an additional $584,000 and to pay $720,000 by July 21. This week, the government agreed with the whistleblowers that they will receive $1,115,614 from the settlement.
Prosecutors also claimed that the company requested and gave money from the federal government programs for actions that they never performed.
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