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Company: BioScrip, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Option Care Health
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Penalty: $5,000,000
Year: 2012
Date: December 19, 2012
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: BioScrip agreed to pay $5 million to settle multistate litigation alleging that it overbilled Medicaid and other government health care programs for prescription medications by treating the government programs as the primary insurance carrier even when the patients had other insurance coverage.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: infusion services
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