An Alabama-based medical billing company that federal authorities allege submitted false claims to the Connecticut Medicaid program has agreed to pay more than $153,000 as part of a settlement with the government, the U.S. attorney's office said.
The company, Amvik Solutions LLC, provides financial services for health care providers, including Helping Hands Academy, a Bridgeport company that provided behavior analysis care to children with autism, the office said in a news release.
"In 2018, Helping Hands retained Amvik to handle the billing and claims for those ABA services," the news release stated. "The government alleges that when submitting claims for payment to Connecticut Medicaid on behalf of Helping Hands, Amvik falsely identified the incorrect Board Certified Behavior Analyst (“BCBA”) as the rendering provider on the claims."
The government said that caused the state Medicaid service, which provides assistance with health care costs to low-income individuals, to pay out claims it wouldn't have paid otherwise.
The claims covered a period from Oct. 3, 2019, through Oct. 1, 2020, the U.S. attorney's office said. The government alleges the matter, which was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services and the FBI, amounted to a violation of the False Claims Act. The law dates to the Civil War and was enacted in response to fraud by defense contractors during the war.
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