Aug. 28—A company that provides oxygen equipment agreed to a $29 million settlement to resolve claims, brought by whistleblowers, that they were overbilling Medicare. It's the largest-ever health care ...

(Reuters) - Linde AG's Lincare unit has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulently billing the U.S. government for oxygen and respiratory care ...

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Lincare Holdings Inc., a supplier of home oxygen equipment, has agreed to pay $526,000 to end a federal whistleblower lawsuit that claimed that three of the company's Massachusetts facilities ...

A Florida-based provider of oxygen equipment for patients with respiratory ailments agreed to pay $29 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently overbilling ...

Lincare Holdings Inc. and Apria Healthcare Group Inc. were among 356 companies that won contracts to supply oxygen tanks, wheelchairs and diabetes- testing equipment to Medicare patients in the first ...

Lincare claimed it had not violated HIPAA rules because the protected health information was "stolen" by the individual who discovered it on the premises previously shared with the Lincare employee.