Gentiva to Pay $6.5 Million to Settle Stock Fraud Claims
Gentiva Health Services last week approved a $6.5 million settlement stemming from a class action lawsuit filed by investors who claimed to have been harmed by a securities fraud scheme. In November...
View ArticleBack-Pay Lawsuit Could Spark $150 Million Home Care Fight
Home care workers in Washington, D.C., have filed a second class action lawsuit claiming employers cheated them of wages, in a case that attorneys say could ultimately involve $150 million in damages....
View ArticleHome Health Aides Are No. 1 Medicaid Fraud Offenders
Home health care aides accounted for more criminal convictions in fiscal year 2014 than any other provider type investigated and prosecuted by Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) throughout the United...
View ArticleMost Read: Top Home Health Provider Mulls Name Change, Hospital-at-Home Programs
In case you missed it, here are the most popular stories grabbing Home Health Care News readers’ attention this week: Amedisys Pushes Forward with Big Changes, Mulls New Name—In a first quarter...
View ArticleHome Health Owner Gets 10 Years, $13 Million Fine for Fraud
A former home health care company owner will spend 10 years in prison and pay $13.8 million for being the leader of a large-scale Medicare fraud, under a sentence handed down Tuesday by a U.S. District...
View ArticleHome Health Fraud: Small-Time Crooks Get Oversized Sentences
When it comes to prosecuting large corporations and small-time offenders for Medicare fraud in Florida, it’s a “Tale of Two Justices,” writes one Orlando Sentinel columnist is a recent opinion piece. A...
View Article‘Power of Attorney’ Has New Meaning in $2.6 Million Home Health Scheme
In the latest instance of home health care fraud, the former in-house counsel of an Ocean County, New Jersey-based home health care company has admitted to stealing more than $2.6 million from his...
View ArticleHome Health Providers Pay $6.5 Million to Settle Forgery, Billing Claims
A group of Tenn.-based home health care companies entered into a $6.5 million settlement this week to resolve allegations that they improperly billed various state and federal programs for services...
View ArticleSelf-Disclosure Leads to $4.4 Million Home Health Settlement
A Hancock, Mich.-based hospital has agreed to pay the United States more than $4 million to settle allegations that its home health care agency committed Medicare fraud. Portage Hospital, LLC, in...
View ArticleLawsuit Claims Amedisys Hid Overbilling to Sell Hospice Business
Amedisys, Inc.—one of the nation’s largest home health and hospice providers—hid that it was overbilling Medicare in order to quickly sell off a part of its hospice business last year, according to...
View ArticleGentiva to Pay $6.5 Million to Settle Stock Fraud Claims
Gentiva Health Services last week approved a $6.5 million settlement stemming from a class action lawsuit filed by investors who claimed to have been harmed by a securities fraud scheme. In November...
View ArticleBack-Pay Lawsuit Could Spark $150 Million Home Care Fight
Home care workers in Washington, D.C., have filed a second class action lawsuit claiming employers cheated them of wages, in a case that attorneys say could ultimately involve $150 million in damages....
View ArticleHome Health Aides Are No. 1 Medicaid Fraud Offenders
Home health care aides accounted for more criminal convictions in fiscal year 2014 than any other provider type investigated and prosecuted by Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) throughout the United...
View ArticleMost Read: Top Home Health Provider Mulls Name Change, Hospital-at-Home Programs
In case you missed it, here are the most popular stories grabbing Home Health Care News readers’ attention this week: Amedisys Pushes Forward with Big Changes, Mulls New Name—In a first quarter...
View ArticleHome Health Owner Gets 10 Years, $13 Million Fine for Fraud
A former home health care company owner will spend 10 years in prison and pay $13.8 million for being the leader of a large-scale Medicare fraud, under a sentence handed down Tuesday by a U.S. District...
View ArticleHome Health Fraud: Small-Time Crooks Get Oversized Sentences
When it comes to prosecuting large corporations and small-time offenders for Medicare fraud in Florida, it’s a “Tale of Two Justices,” writes one Orlando Sentinel columnist is a recent opinion piece. A...
View Article‘Power of Attorney’ Has New Meaning in $2.6 Million Home Health Scheme
In the latest instance of home health care fraud, the former in-house counsel of an Ocean County, New Jersey-based home health care company has admitted to stealing more than $2.6 million from his...
View ArticleHome Health Providers Pay $6.5 Million to Settle Forgery, Billing Claims
A group of Tenn.-based home health care companies entered into a $6.5 million settlement this week to resolve allegations that they improperly billed various state and federal programs for services...
View ArticleDeal Struck in $1 Million Home Health Fraud Case
A Mechanicsburg, Pa., woman who previously faced 70 criminal charges has pleaded guilty to just three charges in connection with a $1 million-plus health care fraud case involving Vision Healthcare...
View ArticleIndiana Home Health Companies to Pay $1.5 Million in Fraud Settlement
Indianapolis-based United Home Healthcare, Inc. and B&L Personal Services, Inc. — known collectively as United, and owned and operated by Byron and Laura Harris — have settled charges that they...
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