Longstanding claims that the Eleanor Slater Hospital defrauded Medicaid out of nearly a half-billion dollars by having its fiscal agent, Gainwell Technologies, submit "fraudulent" claims are back on the federal court docket.

And now, the federal government has weighed in with an opinion on the law that lets the case go forward.

What's behind the lawsuit? Allegations by two former top doctors at the state-run hospital and the former chief-financial-officer that Gainwell had a central role in a decades-long fraud at the state-run hospital involving bilking Medicaid for up to $100 million a year, while "improperly warehousing, undertreating, and overmedicating ... primarily mentally disabled patients.

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