Florida Attorney General’s Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Secures More Than $2.2 Million for Florida Medicaid from

FL 2026 Behavioral Health

OIG False Claims Medicaid Fraud

Penalty

$2.2 million

Outcome

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Florida Attorney General’s Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Secures More Than $2.2 Million for Florida Medicaid from — $2,200,000 Settlement

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—The Florida Attorney General’s Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured more than $2.2 million for the Florida Medicaid program from Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. Acadia, a health care provider based in Tennessee, alleged to have violated the Federal False Claims Act and the Florida False Claims Act by submitting false or fraudulent claims for inpatient behavioral health care to Medicaid and Medicare

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Source: Florida Attorney General’s Office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Secures More Than $2.2 Million for Florida Medicaid from Inpatient Behavioral Health Company

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