Los Angeles Times
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — An Orange County ambulance company has paid $3.05 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it billed Medicare and other federal healthcare programs to transport patients who didn’t need an ambulance, federal prosecutors said.
The suit was filed on behalf of the United States by two former employees of Lynch Ambulance, which is based in Anaheim, under whistle-blower provisions of the federal False Claims Act, according to a written statement by the U.S. attorney’s Central District of California office.
The suit alleged that between 2001 and 2007 the company regularly billed Medicare, TRICARE, which provides healthcare for uniformed service members, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to transport patients who were not “bed-confined” or whose transportation was otherwise not medically necessary.
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