CCMSD alleges management company committed fraud

After reviewing its own finances, Crook County Medical Services District has amended its counterclaim against Health Management Services, the management company with which it severed ties earlier this year. CCMSD now alleges that the company deliberately committed fraud against the district.

HMS filed a second lawsuit against the district in August after the original complaint was withdrawn because it did not meet the standards of the Governmental Claims Act. The new suit is essentially identical to the first and repeats HMS’s claims that the company is still owed payment after the sudden...