Tag: Global Medical
Government announces $12M Medicare fraud settlement
October 23, 2013HME News Staff
NEW ORLEANS - Robert Shea and Mark Franz, owners of a pair of Kansas-based diabetic supply companies, will pay the government $7 million to settle allegations of fraud, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., announced Oct. 22. Federal prosecutors charged the pair and their businesses submitted false claims to Medicare and to Louisiana's Tricare program. Global Medical, Inc. and parent company Global Medical Direct, LLC will pay $5 million from the proceeds of the sale of their assets; the combined...