By Susannah Sudborough

masslive.com

WEYMOUTH, Mass. — Two Weymouth-based ambulance companies have agreed to pay back $6 million to the state for overcharging MassHealth through false claims, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced Monday.

The attorney general’s office said it began investigating allegations Brewster Ambulance Service and EasCare after receiving a whistleblower lawsuit filed in Massachusetts, the attorney general’s office said in a press release . The two companies provide ambulance and wheelchair transportation services to MassHealth patients across Greater Boston the South Shore and are, collectively, the largest medical transportation provider in the state.

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