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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Cottage Health System
Penalty: $9,000,000
Year: 2023
Date: June 29, 2023
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Violation Description: Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority, dba CenCal Health (CenCal), a county organized health system (COHS) that contracts to arrange for the provision of health care services under California's Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) in Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County, California; Cottage Health System (Cottage), a not-for-profit hospital network operating in Santa Barbara County; Sansum Clinic (Sansum), a non-profit outpatient clinic operating in Santa Barbara County; and Community Health Centers of the Central Coast (CHC), a non-profit community health center operating in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, agreed to pay a total of $68 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to Medi-Cal related to Medicaid Adult Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Civil Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
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