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Alere Agrees To Pay $38.8M Over Blood Monitoring Device
Law360 (July 8, 2021, 10:18 PM EDT) Alere Inc. and Alere San Diego Inc. agreed to fork out $38.75 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for faulty blood-monitoring devices, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.
The companies, acquired by Abbot in 2017, allegedly sold defective INRatio blood coagulation monitoring systems to Medicare beneficiaries from 2008 through 2016.
The government alleged that since March 2008, Alere was aware that its INRatio system was capable of issuing incorrect results for patients due to an algorithm defect.
Rather than correcting the alleged defect, Alere opted to close an investigation into the affected.
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