Louisiana Medicaid Claim Proceeds While Other Fraud Claims Cut

Louisiana can continue alleging that a healthcare management company and others engaged in a dental services kickback scheme that defrauded the state’s Medicaid program, but other claims in the eight-year false claims case are dismissed.

Neither side substantively addressed whether Tennessee-based Care Services Management LLC and the other defendants violated Louisiana’s illegal remuneration statute, which precludes kickbacks connected to health services, Judge Aleta A. Trauger of the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee said in a Sept. 5 order. Trauger partially denied the defendants’ motion for summary judgment.

But Trauger rejected all other claims, including the plaintiffs’ ...