Tag: Diabetes Testing Supplies
Lincoln Health Supply makes time for patients
July 15, 2024Tracy Orzel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Lincoln Health Supply recently highlighted the American Diabetes Association's 60-second Diabetes Risk Test to underscore how the provider can help educate and empower consumers to manage their health.
The ADA diabetes risk test is a risk score based on seven criteria that predict the risk of developing diabetes, including age, gender, family history of diabetes, blood pressure, ethnicity, physical activity and BMI and was promoted as part of Diabetes Alert Day...
Diathrive Health partners with Mark Cuban
February 20, 2023HME News Staff
SALT LAKE CITY and DALLAS – Diathrive Health, a diabetes and chronic disease management solution, and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company have announced a new collaboration that they say will give consumers lower cost medications and diabetes testing supplies and more personalized, higher quality care so that they can achieve better health outcomes. “As a practicing physician I saw first-hand the danger of patients not being able to afford medications and supplies," said Alex Oshmyansky,...
Judge allows test strip lawsuit to proceed
October 4, 2022HME News Staff
NEWARK, N.J. - A judge for the U.S. District Court of New Jersey has ruled that Roche Diagnostics Corp. and LifeScan can move forward with lawsuits against Alliance Medical Holdings and its network of retail pharmacies.
Roche, which is represented by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and LifeScan allege in their lawsuit that Alliance defrauded them by purchasing wholesale test strips on the secondary market and then marketing and selling them as higher-priced retail test strips.
They...
Arriva settles False Claims allegations for $160M
August 3, 2021HME News Staff
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Arriva Medical and its parent company, Alere, have agreed to pay $160 million to settle allegations they violated the False Claims Act.
The federal government alleged that, from April 2010 until the end of 2016, Arriva, with Alere’s approval, paid kickbacks to Medicare beneficiaries by providing them free or no-cost glucometers and by routinely waiving, or not collecting, co-payments for meters and diabetes testing supplies. Specifically, it alleged that Arriva...
Diabetes consolidation continues: Advanced Diabetes acquires US MED
July 28, 2021HME News Staff
CARLSBAD, Calif. – Advanced Diabetes Supply has acquired US Medical Supply (US MED), a portfolio company of H.I.G. Capital that provides continuous glucose monitors and medical supplies.
Founded in 1996, the Doral, Fla.-based US MED contracts with more than 500 insurance plans covering nearly 200 million lives. It was acquired by H.I.G in 2015.
“H.I.G. served as a value-added partner to our leadership team and supported the transformation of the business,” said...
Roche, Priority Healthcare settle for $43M
February 24, 2021HME News Staff
INDIANAPOLIS - Priority Healthcare Corp. has agreed to pay $43 million to Roche Diagnostics to settle allegations that it filed fraudulent claims for diabetes testing supplies.
In a lawsuit filed in September 2018, Roche, a manufacturer of diabetes testing supplies, says it paid $37.5 million in “unwarranted” rebates to insurance companies and their pharmacy benefit managers for claims submitted by PHC, a network of pharmacies in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas,...
One Drop names new CFO
February 10, 2021HME News Staff
NEW YORK – One Drop, a provider of digital solutions for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, named Luc Gregoire as chief financial officer. Effective immediately, he will assume responsibility for One Drop's accounting and financial operations, and serve as a strategic business adviser to CEO and founder Jeff Dachis. Gregoire has more than 30 years of financial, strategic and operational experience in public and...
Roche, Humana settle kickback allegations
February 10, 2021HME News Staff
INDIANAPOLIS - Roche Diagnostics and Humana have agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit for $12.5 million, after the government declined to intervene in the case.
Roche was charged with violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act, causing false claims to be submitted to the Medicare Advantage program and defrauding taxpayers, in a lawsuit filed in 2014 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by a former employee of the company.
Humana...
Mail-order program: MedPAC finds no change in health outcomes
April 16, 2020HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Medicare spending for diabetes testing supplies decreased by 88% between 2010-2017, according to a new report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, but health outcomes have remained stable.Since the national mail-order program was implemented in 2013, the use of diabetes testing supplies is down overall, but retail sales of supplies is up, says the report, “Examining Impacts of the National Mail-Order Program on Medicare Service Utilization and Beneficiary Health Outcomes.”MedPAC...
OIG: Non-mail order makes up majority of DST claims
January 31, 2020HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Non-mail order claims for diabetes testing supplies made up 85% of the total Medicare market between April 1, 2019, and June 30, 2019, according to a new report from the Office of Inspector General. Suppliers provided 25 brands of testing supplies to Medicare beneficiaries via non-mail order and 21 brands via mail order. The OIG sent documentation requests to 594 non-mail order suppliers and 18 mail-order suppliers to conduct its study. A rule outlined in the Medicare Improvements for...