Rocky Mountain Care to receive settlement over Medicaid reimbursements

Legislative leaders have approved a $2 million payment to the owner of several Utah nursing homes to end a dispute over Medicaid reimbursements.

When combined with federal settlement money, Rocky Mountain Care will receive some $7 million for its claims that the state Health department underpaid the company for Medicaid patients in its care between July 1991 and December 2002.

Rocky Mountain Care filed the lawsuit in 2002. The case was scheduled to go to trial in April 2006, but the parties agreed upon the settlement prior to that time.