{"id":91475,"date":"2025-08-23T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91475\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:24:11","slug":"walnut-creek-psychotherapy-firm-agrees-to-pay-2-75m-over-false-claims-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/91475\/","title":{"rendered":"Walnut Creek Psychotherapy Firm Agrees To Pay $2.75M Over False Claims Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WALNUT CREEK, CA \u2014 A Walnut Creek behavioral medicine services firm has agreed to pay $2.75 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to government health care payers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndca\/pr\/california-behavioral-medicine-provider-agrees-pay-275-million-resolve-alleged-false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Department of Justice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>American Psychiatric Centers, Inc., which does business under the name Comprehensive Psychiatric Services, has submitted claims using Current Procedural Terminology codes 90833 and 90836, which are add-on codes used when psychotherapy services are performed with an evaluation and management visit, which requires specific documentation.<\/p>\n<p>The government alleges that from Jan. 1, 2015 through Dec. 31, 2022, CPS submitted fraudulent claims using these add-on codes in instances where its providers had either not provided the services described by these codes, or failed to sufficiently document that such services had been provided.<\/p>\n<p>CPS agreed to pay $2,615,569.32 to the United States and $134,430.68 to the state of California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVeterans and their families expect and deserve the highest quality healthcare delivered in a safe and accountable setting,\u201d said Dimitriana Nikolov, special agent in charge with the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General\u2019s Northwest Field Office. \u201cThis settlement is a testament to the VA OIG\u2019s commitment to safeguarding the integrity of VA\u2019s healthcare programs and preserving taxpayer funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who suspects potential health care fraud, waste, abuse or mismanagement can contact the Department of Health and Human Services at 800-447-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WALNUT CREEK, CA \u2014 A Walnut Creek behavioral medicine services firm has agreed to pay $2.75 million to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-91475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}