Thursday, March 13th, 2014 — A Daytona Beach-area hospital has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a Medicare fraud whistle-blower lawsuit. Halifax Hospital Medical Center reached the agreement with federal authorities on Monday. The hospitals director of physician services filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 2009, accusing the facility of filing false Medicare claims and paying doctors improperly. The Justice Department intervened on some of the allegations two years later.