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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 24, 2016

Tennessee-based Life Care Centers of America Inc. and its owner, Forrest L. Preston, have agreed to pay $145 million to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that the company violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing skilled nursing facilities to submit false claims for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable, necessary and/or skilled, the Department of Justice announced today. The news follows an announcement by the department earlier this month that a settlement had been reached in the case. It is now one of the largest settlements with a skilled nursing facility chain in the department’s history, and the largest civil False Claims Act settlement in the Eastern District of Tennessee. Chattanoogan.com has the latest.