Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., which does business as Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, agreed to pay New Jersey $100 million to settle allegations that it fraudulently induced the State to enter into a 2020 contract to administer the State’s employee benefit programs, and then systematically overcharged the State for healthcare claims throughout the life of that contract. This agreement is the State’s largest-ever non-Medicaid False Claims Act settlement. The agreement settles allegations that Horizon violated New Jersey’s False Claims Act (NJFCA), which guards against fraud against the government. While the federal government declined to pursue this matter, the State filed its own Complaint in Intervention in US District Court, alleging three counts of violations of the NJFCA, including fraudulent inducement, presentment of false claims, presentment of false records or statements, as well as claims for breach of contract and unjust enrichment.