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Email This past December, GGNSC Holdings LLC and six of its affiliated nursing homes ("Golden Living") entered into a Corporate Integrity Agreement ("CIA") with the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("OIG") and agreed to pay $613,300 to settle a Federal and state False Claims Act ("FCA") action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the State of Georgia. The settlement resolved the FCA claims based on allegations that two of the nursing facilities had provided inadequate and "worthless" wound care to its residents. The Golden Living case represents only the latest installment of DOJ's aggressive use of the FCA to pursue "worthless services" actions, and is a sober reminder to providers and managed care plans that quality of care – both individual and systemic deficiencies – must be treated as a compliance priority. https://www.cadwalader.com/resources/clients-friends-memos/worthless-servics-can-be-costly-nursing-facilities-enter-into-cia-and-settle-false-claims-act-suit-over-quality-issues