The state of Florida says it overpaid a Miramar-based healthcare company $5.8 million for services during the height of the COVID pandemic — and the company won’t refund the money.
The company CEO at the time when the state says overpayments occurred was Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who is now a member of Congress representing parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management, in a lawsuit filed Dec. 30, said its effort to recover the overpayment has been unsuccessful. By not repaying the money, the lawsuit says, Trinity Healthcare Services is in violation of the contract it had to provide coronavirus vaccination services.
“Trinity took advantage of the state of emergency the entire country was encountering due to the COVID-19 pandemic and knowingly processed an invoice more than 100 times its typical invoice size,” the complaint said. “Trinity refused to return the overpayments and instead has kept $5,778,316.45 that it was not entitled to and had not earned.”