{"id":6453,"date":"2017-04-12T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:18:23","slug":"massachusetts-accuses-uhs-of-medicaid-billing-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6453","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts accuses UHS of Medicaid billing fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The state of Massachusetts intervened Monday in a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/legal-regulatory-issues\/supreme-court-issues-key-decision-on-false-claims-act-liability-9-things-to-know.html\">landmark false claims case<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>accusing King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services of illegally charging Medicaid for outpatient mental health services provided by unqualified staff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/legal-regulatory-issues\/massachusetts-accuses-uhs-of-medicaid-billing-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ayla Ellison for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The state of Massachusetts intervened Monday in a\u00a0landmark false claims case\u00a0accusing King of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}