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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Westlake Convalescent Hospital
Penalty: $3,563,140
Year: 2016
Date: September 9, 2016
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: A Los Angeles nursing home and two physicians who worked at the facility paid $3,563,140 to resolve civil allegations that they participated in a scheme to improperly transfer patients recruited from the Skid Row district to a hospital for medically unnecessary services, and then transfer the patients from the hospital to the nursing home for medically unnecessary stays.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Central District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
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