UPDATE: Hours after this ProPublica story published, #Lincare announced internally that “effective immediately, Greg McCarthy is no longer Chief Operating Officer. Greg is leaving Lincare to pursue other opportunities.”

#News #Health #Business #CPAP #Healthcare #Insurance #Safety #FDA

https://propub.li/4fCG4xM

Reprehensible: How Lincare Cashed In on the Disastrous Recall of Philips Breathing Machines — at the Expense of Patients

TL:DR Lincare diverted thousands of machines to new customers which resulted in greater profits 🤬

As #Philips struggled to execute its recall in 2022, it turned to its biggest distributor, a company called #Lincare, to help ensure that replacement equipment would reach the patients who needed it most. But instead of sending those machines to vulnerable longtime users…Lincare diverted thousands of machines to new customers, which resulted in greater profits.
#cpap
https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-philips-cpap-breathing-machines-recall-healthcare

https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-philips-cpap-breathing-machines-recall-healthcare

How Lincare Cashed In on the Disastrous #Recall of Philips Breathing Machines — at the Expense of #Patients
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Amid reports of thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths, Lincare was supposed to supply the most ailing patients with new CPAP machines, but instead diverted the devices to new customers who would deliver greater profits for the company.

#News #Business #Health #Healthcare #Insurance #Safety #FDA #Lincare

https://www.propublica.org/article/lincare-philips-cpap-breathing-machines-recall-healthcare

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/last-gasp/#i-cant-breathe

Once again, a killer synopsis on the anatomy of greed from @pluralistic. #lincare #greed #fraud

"Lincare has been repeatedly found guilty of defrauding Medicare; in this century alone, they have been put on probation four times, with a "death penalty" provision that would permanently disqualify them from ever doing business with the federal government. In every case, Lincare committed fresh acts of fraud, but never faced that death penalty.

Why not? Lincare is far too big to fail. In America's bizarre, worst-in-class, world-beatingly expensive privatized health care system, even public health provision (like Medicare) is outsourced to the private sector. Lincare has monopolized oxygen, a famously very important molecule for human survival, and if it were disqualified from serving Medicare, large numbers of Americans would literally asphyxiate.

Lincare clearly knows this. Too big to fail is too big to jail, and too big to jail is too big to care. They are the poster children for impunity, repeat offenders, multiply convicted, and still offending, even today. Lincare has been convicted of fraud under the administrations of GW Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden, and they're still in business."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/13/last-gasp/

#USA #Medicare #Healthcare #Lincare #Fraud #TooBigToJail

#Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding #Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
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Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The federal #government has done little to stop it.

https://propub.li/3UNDUms

#News #Healthcare #Insurance #Fraud #CPAP #Health