Alere, Inc. and its San Diego subsidiary, agreed to pay $38.75 million to resolve False Claims Act charges for billing the Medicare program for defective rapid point-of-care testing devices. Alere sold diagnostic devices knowing that the devices had a materially defective algorithm.  During the period 2008 to 2016, Alere sold defective INRatio-blood coagulation monitors used by Medicare patients taking anticoagulant drugs (e.g., warfarin).  Blood coagulation...