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May 19, 2014

Posted  January 22, 2016

Todd Farha, former CEO of WellCare, an operator of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in several states, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison for defrauding the Florida Medicaid program. According to court records and evidence at trial, Farha and others orchestrated a scheme to defraud the Florida Medicaid program from the summer of 2003 through the fall of 2007 by making fraudulent statements relating to expenditures for behavioral health care services. Under a prior settlement with the government, WellCare was required to pay $80M in restitution and forfeitures. In a related civil qui tam case filed under the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, Wellcare also paid $137.5M in civil fines and penalties. DOJ

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