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*American Health Imaging, Inc. (AHI) – which has locations in Gainesville, Cumming and Suwanee and elsewhere in Georgia – and its former founder and CEO, Scott Arant, will pay the federal government and Georgia $5.2 million to resolve allegations lodged against them by the Justice Department. They are accused of providing physicians with meals, tickets to sporting events, and other gifts to induce those physicians to refer diagnostic scans to AHI’s independent diagnostic testing facilities and also entering into above fair market value personal services agreements with referring physicians to induce those physicians to refer scans to AHI. The claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only, and there has been no determination of liability, according to a Justice Department news release.