March 9, 2015

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that Mental Health Association of Rockland County, Inc. agreed to pay $304,000 to resolve claims its managers and employees altered records in advance of a Medicaid audit so that the records would appear to support claims that were submitted by MHA Rockland to New York State’s Medicaid program. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two former MHA Rockland employees under the qui tam provisions of the New York False Claims Act, who will receive an undisclosed portion of the settlement. NY

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