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An Oct. 24 raid on managed care provider WellCare Health Plans was prompted by allegations that the company inflated mental health care spending and kept over $35 million it should have refunded to Florida's Medicaid program, says "a person familiar with details of the investigation," according to the Wall Street Journal.
Nearly 200 agents from the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Florida Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit scoured WeliCare's headquarters. A few days later, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal confirmed that his office has been investigating...
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