Attorney General Josh Stein Reaches $2.5 Million Medicaid Fraud

NC 2026 Behavioral Health

OIG False Claims Medicaid Fraud

Penalty

$2.5 million

Outcome

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Attorney General Josh Stein Reaches $2.5 Million Medicaid Fraud — $2,505,000 Settlement

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(RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced a $2,505,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Southeastern Behavioral Healthcare Services, LLC, a behavioral health business in Lumberton and Maxton, and its owners, Bertha Hutchinson and Virgil Hutchinson, submitted false claims to the North Carolina Medicaid program. The settlement was reached in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

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