Litigation
Nov. 21, 2013
Ensign Group to pay $48M for nursing home fraud
In what has amounted to one of the largest settlements for a case of this type, Mission Viejo based Ensign Group will settle claims that it knowingly defrauded Medicare for unnecessary treatment.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The Ensign Group Inc., a Mission Viejo-based company that operates nursing homes, will pay $48 million to settle whistleblower lawsuits alleging that it knowingly submitted inflated bills to Medicare for unnecessary or fictitious services to its elderly patients, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Though listed as "One of America's Best Small Companies" in Forbes magazine last year, E...
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