Addiction Recovery Care Agrees to Pay $16.2 Million Judgment For Medicaid Fraud

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July 27, 2026 – The judgment, announced today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General, is part of a civil settlement resolving allegations that ARC and its affiliates violated the False Claims Act, a federal statute that prohibits the submission of false claims for payment to Government programs, including the Medicaid program.




In April 2023, current and former employees of ARC filed a qui tam complaint alleging that ARC defrauded the Kentucky Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent claims for payment for behavioral health services provided in their drug rehabilitation programs. Under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, a citizen can file a civil action on behalf of the United States to bring allegations of fraud to the Government’s attention. The United States thereafter opened a civil investigation into whether ARC violated the False Claims Act. During the Government’s investigation, ARC self-disclosed to the Government that it should not have billed for some of its services, including services identified by the whistleblowers in the qui tam complaint.




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