Admera Health agreed to pay more than $5.5 million to resolve allegations first brought by two whistleblowers that it paid kickbacks to third-party contractors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

New Jersey-based Admera will pay nearly $5.4 million to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute and nearly $148,000 to individual states over reimbursed claims to Medicare, the DOJ said in a press release Wednesday.

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