Maximus settles Medicaid complaint
Source: By Jim McElhatton, Washington Times, July 24, 2007
The Reston-based Maximus consulting company agreed yesterday to pay $30.5 million to resolve a criminal investigation into whether it falsified tens of millions of dollars in Medicaid claims prepared for the D.C. government.
The overall settlement, announced by the Justice Department, also includes more than $12 million that federal authorities said they recovered from the D.C. government in connection with the investigation.
....... The District hired Maximus, one of the country's largest government consulting companies, to help recoup Medicaid funds for services that the agency provided to foster children.
However, Mr. Turner's lawsuit charged the company's work was "grounded in fraud."