July 28, 2014
Vascular Solutions Inc. will pay $520,000 to resolve a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit accusing the company of inducing physicians to bill federal health programs like Medicare for an unapproved treatment of varicose veins, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.
March 07, 2013
A Texas federal judge Thursday refused to wipe out a whistleblower's False Claims Act suit accusing Vascular Solutions Inc. of tricking physicians into billing Medicare for unapproved treatment of diseased veins, scoffing at the company's insistence it didn't benefit financially.
December 13, 2012
The U.S. government on Wednesday filed an intervening complaint in a False Claims Act suit in Texas federal court accusing Vascular Solutions Inc. of defrauding Medicare and other government health programs out of $20 million through kickbacks and off-label promotion of its endovenous laser therapy products.
August 15, 2012
A judge on Tuesday unsealed an False Claims Act case alleging that Vascular Solutions Inc. defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other government health programs out of $20 million through kickbacks and off-label promotion of its endovenous laser therapy products, after the U.S. government decided to intervene in the suit.