An Indian-origin, Siddhartha Pagidipati, a executive at the Florida-based  managed care services provider has agreed to pay $750,000 in order to be acquitted from the extensive fraud committed at the company.

Siddhartha Pagidipati, who is a former Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Freedom Health, has agreed to pay $750,000 to be acquitted from fraud, announced the justice department.

Freedom Health and also the related corporate entities have agreed to pay $32.5 million to resolve the allegations of fraud that they have violated the ‘False Claims Act’ by engaging themselves in the illegal schemes in order to increase their payments from the government in connection to their Medicare Advantage plans.

The government has alleged that the Freedom Health had submitted or caused others to submit the unsupported diagnosis codes to the federal health agency that resulted in the inflated reimbursements from the years 2008 to 2013 in the connection with the two of their Medicare Advantage plans operating in Florida.

It is also alleged that the Freedom Health has made the many material misrepresentations to the agency regarding the scope and also content of its network of providers in the application. The government’s settlement with Pagidipati will resolve his alleged role in this latter fraud.

“When entering into agreements with managed care providers, the government requests information from those providers to ensure that patients are afforded the appropriate level of care.Today’s result sends a clear message to the managed care industry that the United States will hold managed care plan providers responsible when they fail to provide truthful information,” said the acting assistant attorney general, Chad Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

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