{"id":11653,"date":"2018-10-02T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2018-10-02T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T11:49:08","slug":"feds-settle-huge-whistleblower-suit-over-medicare-advantage-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11653","title":{"rendered":"Feds Settle Huge Whistleblower Suit Over Medicare Advantage Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Schulte for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>One of the nation\u2019s largest dialysis providers will pay $270 million to settle a whistleblower\u2019s allegation that it helped Medicare Advantage insurance plans cheat the government for several years.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement by HealthCare Partners Holdings LLC, part of giant dialysis company DaVita Inc., is believed to be the largest to date involving allegations that some Medicare Advantage plans exaggerate how sick their patients are to inflate government payments. DaVita, which is headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., did not admit fault. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/feds-settle-huge-whistleblower-suit-over-medicare-advantage-fraud\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66356511&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-96rK4raRky0-mS0b-mrerMkI1Qui03Rm0-XdD2zQ4ZbJ3LhDGvsaBZLhjiwV0Oxcqp-XC4jpQSo_QAlQZMFbchV0FDPw&amp;_hsmi=66356511\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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