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 ...

Aug. 28—A company that provides oxygen equipment agreed to a $29 million settlement to resolve claims, brought by whistleblowers, that they were overbilling Medicare. It's the largest-ever health care ...

MUNICH, GERMANY--(Marketwire -08/14/12)- The Linde Group announced today that it has successfully completed its previously announced acquisition of Lincare Holdings Inc. (LNCR). As a result of the ...

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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.

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 ...

For the second time in history, on January 13, 2016, an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) upheld the imposition of civil money penalties charged against a covered entity by the Office of Civil Rights in ...

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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 ...

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