A Kentucky addiction treatment company built itself into the state's largest provider by billing Medicaid more than a billion dollars. Federal investigators, two creditors, and former employees are now describing the same machine from different doors.
Massachusetts has sued UnitedHealthcare for allegedly inflating the health status of elderly Medicaid members to pull at least $100 million in extra payments from MassHealth over a decade. The state says the company found the problem in an internal review, then kept the money.
Federal prosecutors say two Minneapolis-area autism therapy centers turned a Medicaid program for autistic children into a billing engine, with one owner allegedly invoicing nine hours a day for 185 straight days. The grand jury indictments unsealed this week add two more names to a case that has already produced two guilty pleas.