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Article: United States Intervenes in False Claims Act Suit Against Virginia Medicaid Providers.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 18, 2009
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The United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia have intervened in a False Claims Act suit in the Western District of Virginia against the Medicaid providers Universal Health Services Inc., Keystone Marion LLC and Keystone Education and Youth Services LLC, the Justice Department announced. They did business as the Keystone Marion Youth Center, a residential facility in Marion, Va., that receives Medicaid funds to provide psychiatric counseling and treatment for boys ages 11-17 (see also Medicare and Medicaid).
This False Claims Act lawsuit was filed by several former therapists who worked at the Marion residential facility. The suit alleges that defendants ...