$1.5M Settlement Reached In False Claims Dispute Over Substandard Nursing Home Care

Mealey's (November 22, 2017, 1:51 PM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — The operators of a Mississippi nursing home have agreed to pay the United States a total of $1.25 million to resolve allegations that they provided false claims to Medicare and the Mississippi Medicaid program related to the provision of “grossly substandard care” to residents, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Nov. 16.  The same day, a Mississippi federal judge dismissed a relator’s second amended complaint and the United States’ complaint in intervention in the qui tam action after the parties stipulated to dismissal (United States, ex rel., Academy Health Center Inc. v. Hyperion Foundation Inc., et al., No. 10-00552, S.D. Miss.)....