PE Firm Pays Record Settlement for Allegedly Deficient Health Services: Identifying Traps for the Unwary

On October 14, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced a potentially groundbreaking settlement, in which a private equity firm and former executives of South Bay Mental Health Center agreed to pay $25 million for allegedly billing the state’s Medicaid Program for mental health care services provided to patients by unlicensed, unqualified, and improperly supervised staff members at clinics across the state.