The county-organized health system that manages Medi-Cal enrollees in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and three Central Coast healthcare providers and will pay a total of $68 million to resolve allegations they submitted false claims to Medi-Cal, according to a news release from the California Department of Justice.
Four entities — the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority, also known as CenCal Health; Santa Barbara’s Cottage Health System and Sansum Clinic; and San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara-based Community Health Centers of the Central Coast — entered settlement agreements with the United States and the state of California, the release said.
Settlement agreements were executed earlier in June. Late Wednesday, a federal judge unsealed the whistleblower case, naming the four entities, the release said.
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