Whistleblower to get $65M in DaVita settlement

A whistleblower and former senior financial analyst for DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (NYSE: DVA) will receive $65 million plus interest from a $389 million settlement between the Justice Department and the dialysis company, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

David Barbetta, of Virginia, will receive the money as part of a lawsuit he filed in 2009 in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against Denver-based DaVita. Barbetta alleged that the kidney dialysis giant violated the False Claims Act by paying illegal kickbacks to physicians who referred patients to dialysis centers in which the physicians had an…