( November 16, 2023, 1:25 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Nov. 15 announced that six skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), their owner and their management company have entered into a $45.6 million consent judgment to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and California False Claims Act in submitting false claims to Medicare by paying kickbacks to physicians in exchange for the physicians referring patients to the SNFs....