Jax company to pay $22.5 million to settle Medicare fraud suit

Jacksonville-based wound care company Healogics Inc. will pay up to $22.5 million in a settlement with the Justice Department. The department's suit claimed Healogics knowingly caused wound care centers to bill Medicare for unnecessary and unreasonable hyperbaric oxygen therapy. “Medicare beneficiaries are entitled to care based on their clinical needs and not the financial goals of healthcare providers,” Chad A. Readler, acting assistant attorney general for the department's civil division,…
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