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Article: Acadian Ambulance settles suit
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- The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
- Article date:
- June 23, 1998
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U.S. Attorney Mike Skinner of Lafayette dropped a bombshell May 26 when he announced that Acadian Ambulance had agreed to pay the federal government $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit that charged the Lafayette company with overbilling the Medicare and Medicaid programs from 1990 to 1994.
The suit that prompted the investigation into the billing practices at the nation's largest privately held ambulance company had been sealed since it was filed in 1996.
As required by law, the suit was not unsealed until the settlement was announced.
The settlement of the U.S. Department of Justice's case follows two more recent settlements of federal civil suits filed in Baton Rouge against Acadian. In ...