The government authority that oversees ambulance service in Pinellas County has agreed to pay $163,800 to settle its part of a lawsuit that claims it took kickbacks. The federal whistle-blower lawsuit alleges Pinellas County’s Emergency Medical Services Authority received improper payments from the Paramedics Plus, the parent company of Sunstar Paramedics, in return …
A recently unsealed federal lawsuit alleges that Paramedics Plus, the parent company of the Sunstar Paramedics ambulance company, engaged in an illegal kickback scheme involving Pinellas County EMS and millions of dollars in “false claims” against Medicare and Medicaid. Craig Hare, Director of EMS and Fire Administration in Pinellas County, has deferred all …
An Air Methods helicopter in California in February. (Photo by Alan Wilson, Creative Commons ) Centennial-based Air Methods Corp., the nation’s largest air ambulance company, was hit last week with the sixth lawsuit since 2015 alleging that it overcharges patients. In a complaint filed Nov. 4, a Pennsylvania man injured in a car accident claims that publicly traded Air Methods Corp. billed him …
The suit also mentions a tweet posted by Patriarch Partners CEO Lynn Tilton about the February bankruptcy. In 2011, TransCare EMTs Arlene Testa and Frank Maddalena delivered a baby at the White Plains TransCenter. TransCare employees have not been paid in what CEO Glenn Leland called a “short-term payroll crisis.”(Photo: TJN) 156 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE Former employees for a …