Mariner Health Care Inc., subsidiary SavaSeniorCare Administrative Services LLC, and their principals will pay the federal government and several states $14 million to settle kickback allegations.

As we blogged before, federal prosecutors alleged that the defendants solicited kickback payments from pharmacy giant Omnicare in exchange for agreements by Mariner and Sava to continue using Omnicare’s pharmacy services for 15 years.

Federal investigators alleged in a whistleblower suit filed last year that Omnicare, Mariner, Sava, and principals Leonard Grunstein, Murray Forman, and Rubin Schron arranged for Omnicare to pay Mariner and Sava $50 million in exchange for the right to continue providing pharmacy services to the nursing homes.

Approximately $7.84 million of the settlement will go to the federal government, while $6.16 million has been allocated to several state Medicaid programs that the federal government did not identify.

So simply – would you want your loved ones in one of these nursing homes?