O.C. provider of heart monitoring services will pay $3.6 million to settle fraud lawsuit

The suit accused National Cardio Labs LLC — with offices in Santa Ana, Aliso Viejo and Irvine — of defrauding government healthcare programs.

July 09, 2010|By Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times

An Orange County company that provided heart monitoring services has agreed to pay $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit in which it was accused of defrauding government healthcare programs, the U.S. attorney's office said Thursday.

The lawsuit alleged that National Cardio Labs LLC; the company's manager, Adrienne Stanman; and Stanman's husband, Robert Parsons, a former manager, defrauded Medicare, Tricare and health insurance carriers contracted through the federal government.

National Cardio Labs, with offices in Santa Ana, Aliso Viejo and Irvine, was operating as an independent diagnostic testing facility that received, analyzed and printed out data from heart monitors and other medical devices, authorities said.

Stanman and Parsons, both from Laguna Niguel, are accused of knowingly submitting false healthcare claims for cardiac and blood pressure diagnostic testing between January 1998 and February 2004.

ann.simmons@latimes.com

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O.C. provider of heart monitoring services will pay $3.6 million to settle fraud lawsuit

The suit accused National Cardio Labs LLC — with offices in Santa Ana, Aliso Viejo and Irvine — of defrauding government healthcare programs.

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