Ohio Treatment Facilities & Corporate Parent Agree To Pay $10.25 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations of Kickbacks To Consumers & Unnecessary Admissions

Oglethorpe Inc. and its three Ohio facilities, Cambridge Behavioral Hospital, Ridgeview Behavioral Hospital, and The Woods at Parkside, will pay $10.25 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for improperly providing free long-distance transportation to consumers and admitting consumers at Cambridge and Ridgeview who did not require inpatient psychiatric treatment, resulting in the submission of false claims to the Medicare program.

Oglethorpe Inc. is a Florida company that operates two Ohio inpatient psychiatric hospitals, Cambridge and Ridgeview, and one Ohio substance abuse treatment facility, Parkside. The settlement was based on analysis of the companies’ ability . . .