Acadia Healthcare pays $17 million to settle Medicaid fraud

A health care company will pay a $17 million settlement in a fraud scheme, the largest health care fraud settlement in West Virginia’s history, U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart announced Monday morning. The firm, Acadia Healthcare Co., and its subsidiary, CRC Health, entered into the settlement with the United States, through the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, and the state of West Virginia, through its Department of Health and Human Resources and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.