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According to a statement from the US Attorney's office, WellCare Health Plans Inc. - charged in a plot to defraud the Florida Medicaid program and the Florida Healthy Kids Corp, since 2007 - has agreed to pay the office $80 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement.The deferred prosecution agreement gives the Tampa, Florida-based WellCare the option of abiding by certain obligations so as to avert conviction in the supposed $40 million fraud, by inappropriately over-stating its health care expenditure, from mid-2002 to 2006, in the Florida benefits programs for nearly 2.5 million low-income adults and children.As per the settlement agreement, WellCare will make a $40 million payment in reimbursement to the Florida agencies; while the other $40 million pertains to civil forfeiture.
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