Settlement Amount:
$11,500,000
A settlement has been reached to resolve False Claims Act allegations against five southern California ambulance companies.
The allegations arose from a lawsuit that claimed five southern California ambulance companies (Pacific Ambulance, Inc., Bowers Companies, Inc., Care Ambulance Service, Inc., Balboa Ambulance Service, Inc., and E.R. Ambulance, Inc.), engaged in a so-called “swapping” kickback schemes by providing discounted and often below cost ambulance services to hospitals and/or skilled nursing facilities in exchange for exclusive rights to the facilities’ more lucrative Medicare patient referrals.
The whistleblowers' share of the settlement will be approximately $1.7 million.
