Health Net Inc., a large company with revenues of $11.9 billion in 2011, encouraged a Veterans Affairs Department employee to set up a service-disabled veteran-owned small business in 2006 so Health Net could increase its own business with the department that involved re-pricing health care claims, a VA inspector general review found.

The veteran-owned business, Enterprise Technology Solutions, performed little work under its contracts with VA and instead subcontracted the work to Health Net in violation of contracting rules, according to an investigation by the VA inspector general released Monday.

The IG staff reviewed five contracts held by Enterprise Technology Solutions valued at $82 million over a two-year period.

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