AG Weiser today announced a settlement with Apex Vision and Wellness, a Greeley-based eye clinic, and Just for Grins Vision, a Fountain-based eye clinic, to resolve allegations that the clinics illegally billed the state’s Medicaid program for thousands of corrective lenses for children and young adults. Apex will pay a fine totaling $280,000 and Just for Grins will pay $240,000 under the agreements. 

“We all pay the costs of Medicaid fraud. In these cases, the eye clinics regularly overbilled Medicaid for two sets of lenses—including sets of unnecessary special lenses—but delivered only one set to child patients. I am committed to protecting the integrity of the state Medicaid program, holding accountable any providers that fail to follow Colorado’s Medicaid laws, and protecting patients.” – AG Weiser