Colorado will receive $5.7 million as part of a $160 million multistate settlement with in-home healthcare provider Maxim Healthcare Services Inc.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said the settlement involving 41 states resolves allegations that the Maryland-based company billed Medicaid for services that weren’t provided.
Suthers said that the $5.7 million will be placed in Colorado’s General Fund through the Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing.
Colorado will receive half of the funds from Maxim in a lump-sum payment. The remaining half will be paid in quarterly increments over the next eight years.
The settlement was the result of a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower who complained of receiving statements of services rendered that weren’t performed.
Suthers said state and federal investigators confirmed improper billing by sampling patients and uncovering “widespread discrepancies.”
The Colorado AG’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit facilitated Colorado’s share of the settlement.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
