A New England nursing home group, its owner, and an executive agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations first brought by a whistleblower that they billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary care, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Wednesday.
RegalCare Management Group and RegalCare Management 2.0, together known as RegalCare; owner and chief executive Eliyahu Mirlis; and Hector Caraballo, RegalCare’s former vice president of clinical reimbursement, submitted false claims amounting to millions of dollars to the government health programs between 2018 and 2023, according to a complaint filed in February 2025 in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. RegalCare, of Delaware, operated 19 nursing homes in Massachusetts and two in Connecticut during that period.
