Pinellas eye care practice to pay $600K in kickback scheme settlement

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Pinellas Eye Care P.A., doing business as Gulfcoast Eye Care, has agreed to pay $615,000 to resolve alleged federal violations of the False Claims Act and a related Florida statute stemming from its billing for certain kinds of ultrasounds through a kickback arrangement with a third party. 

 

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