Mealey's (September 14, 2020, 3:26 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Sept. 10 that a Louisiana company that provides upper and lower extremity prosthetics to patients entered into an agreement in federal court in Louisiana in which it agreed to pay $1.6 million plus interest to resolve a whistleblower's lawsuit accusing it of violating the False Claims Act (FCA) when billing Medicare for services after its supplier number was deactivated (United States ex rel. Kimberly Throgmorton v. Shreveport Prosthetics Inc., No. 17-881, W.D. La.)....