Ambulance service ordered to pay $5.5M in scam

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 9:01 p.m. January 30, 2018
  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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TAMPA — AmeriCare Ambulance Service Inc. and its sister company, AmeriCare ALS Inc., have agreed to pay $5.5 million to resolve allegations the entities defrauded Medicare by billing for medically unnecessary ambulance transportation services.

 

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