BERLIN (AP) -- Linde AG, a German-based company that specializes in industrial and medical gases including oxygen, said Monday it is looking to get a bigger slice of the growing health care market ...

Lincare claimed it had not violated HIPAA rules because the protected health information was "stolen" by the individual who discovered it on the premises previously shared with the Lincare employee.

(Reuters) - Linde AG's Lincare unit has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the company of fraudulently billing the U.S. government for oxygen and respiratory care ...

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One of the country’s largest suppliers of oxygen and respiratory equipment has agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle allegations that it violated anti-kickback laws by reducing copayments for certain ...

The nation’s largest supplier of home respiratory-therapy products, which was previously fined for violating HIPAA, is now being sued by a group of former employees, who say the company failed to ...

On August 16, 2018, the DOJ announced that Lincare, Inc. (Lincare), a durable medical equipment (DME) provider of oxygen and other in-home respiratory therapy services, paid $5.25 million to settle ...

A Florida-based provider of oxygen equipment for patients with respiratory ailments agreed to pay $29 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently overbilling ...

BERLIN (AP) -- Linde AG, a German-based company that specializes in industrial gases, plans to acquire U.S. home care health company Lincare Holdings Inc. in a deal worth $4.6 billion. The companies ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Such a litany of Medicare-related misconduct might be ...