Humana-owned Villages Health agrees to $542M settlement for overbilling Medicare

The Central Florida provider manufactured fake diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage patients from 2020 to 2024, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent payments, the DOJ said. Humana bought The Villages Health last year.

healthcaredive.com ·2026-08-27

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