$584k settlement reached with Greensboro treatment center over Medicaid fraud allegations
by: Brayden Stamps
Posted: May 6, 2026 / 11:33 AM EDT
Updated: May 6, 2026 / 11:33 AM EDT
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced on Tuesday that the state has reached a six-figure settlement in a Greensboro Medicaid fraud investigation.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina reached a $584,143 settlement with Crossroads Treatment Center of Greensboro, P.C., to settle allegations of Crossroads submitting false claims to the Medicaid program.
Half of the funds from the settlement will go back into the Medicaid program and the other half will go to fund public schools in North Carolina.
Crossroads was a facility that treated people with substance use disorders. Between 2019 and 2023, Crossroads was alleged to have submitted claims for urinary drug testing to the North Carolina Medicaid program without giving physicians the option to order a lower level of urine drug testing, leading to more complex testing that was medically unnecessary.
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