Owners of healthcare facility agree to Medicaid settlement
Compliance Monitor, May 14, 2008
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The owners of a North Natomas, CA, adult healthcare facility will pay $455,000 to resolve allegations they submitted false claims to California’s Medicaid agency Medi-Cal, according to a Sacramento Bee article.
According to the article, a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2004 accused Miron and Yana Balyasny, Valeriy and Yelena Barash, and Arkady Shturman and Natalia Romachova, and their company, Altamedix Inc., of:
Falsifying care plans to qualify patients for coverage for unnecessary services
Falsifying patients’ medical records to support the care plans
Billing Medi-Cal for improper and unnecessary therapy
The defendants will pay the federal government $100,000 immediately and the balance over five years.
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