Home Care Provider Files for Bankruptcy After Tequila-for-Referrals Charges
Kentucky-based Nurses’ Registry and Home Health Corp. recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and alleges Medicare owes the company $1 million in payments for health care services it provided....
View ArticleDoc Faces 175-Year Sentence for Home Care Kickbacks, Unneeded Chemo
Soliciting kickbacks for home care referrals is enough to land any physician in jail or a hefty fine, but this was far from the most serious offense in the case of one Detroit-area doctor who could...
View ArticleFeds Sue Home Care Provider Over Contract Workers
The U.S. Department of Labor has sued an Orlando-based home health care agency for allegedly misclassifying certain employees as “independent contractors” and paying them a flat hourly rate, regardless...
View ArticleUndercover Operation Nabs Home Health CEO Accused of Fraud
A federal undercover operation has led to the arrest of a Chicago-based home health care company’s CEO accused of fraudulently billing Medicare for up to $1.2 million. Henry Smilie, CEO of Home...
View ArticleWhistleblower Cases Target Medicare Advantage Home Health Visits
A series of whistleblower cases over how Medicare Advantage plans utilize in-home health assessments to set their payment rates has raised concerns over poor government oversight. Filed in 2014 and...
View ArticleHome Health Owners, Nurses Charged in $6 Million Fraud Case
A husband and wife in charge of a Chicago-based home health care business and nurses employed by the company are among those who have been accused in a more than $6 million fraud scheme, according to a...
View ArticleThree Angels Founder ‘Ms. Grace’ Disgraced in Home Care Scheme
The founder of a Texas-based home health care company, Three Angels Home Health Inc., is in U.S. Marshal custody after being charged with Medicare fraud. Grace Munthali, also known as “Ms. Grace,” was...
View ArticleHospice to Shell Out $3 Million for Alleged Medicare Fraud
Guardian Hospice of Georgia LLC, Guardian Home Care Holdings Inc. and AccentCare Inc—collectively known as Guardian, a for-profit company that provides hospice services in Atlanta, Georgia—agreed to...
View ArticleOwner Admits Guilt in Elaborate $30 Million Home Health Fraud
An elaborate $30 million Medicare fraud indictment has resulted in a Louisiana home health company owner and three former home health workers pleading guilty to health care fraud-related charges, the...
View ArticlePhysician Indicted in $20 Million Home Health Scam
A Miami physician was indicted as part of a $20 million Medicare fraud conspiracy that already has found one home health operator sentenced to prison. Henry Lora, 51, was charged with two counts of...
View ArticleSupport Grows for Clearing Home Care Worker’s Criminal Record
When a home health care worker’s criminal record was expunged by a New York district judge earlier this year, the decision thrust the issue of employment discrimination based on past criminal...
View ArticleHome Care Agency Claims Rival Stole Data, Spread Rumors
Allegations of stolen health records and their use to solicit customers to a new business are the basis of a seemingly ‘he-said-she-said’ lawsuit filed last week by home care agency Angels in Your...
View ArticleBiggest-Ever Hospice False Claims Case Gets New Trial
U.S. District Court Judge Karon Bowdre ordered a new trial Monday in a False Claims Act case asserting that a hospice provider fraudulently billed Medicare for patients—and the fault for the new trial...
View ArticleCEO Admits $1.9 Million Fraud for In-Home Treatments
The CEO of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors has pleaded guilty to bilking Medicare out of nearly $2 million for in-home treatments deemed lengthier than they actually were, Healthcare Finance News...
View ArticleHome Care Owners Arrested for $13 Million Scheme
Owners of a home health agency in Texas and two patient recruiters were arrested Tuesday for their alleged roles in conspiracies to defraud Medicare, to commit money laundering and to pay illegal...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Decide if Home Health Owner Can Tap Funds
A case heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday may make it easier for individuals accused of Medicare fraud to hire a lawyer. The defendant in the case is a former home health agency owner who has been...
View ArticleHome Care Owners Found Guilty in $80 Million Fraud Scheme
The owners of a Washington, D.C., home care agency have been found guilty of bilking the District of Columbia Medicaid program of more than $80 million. On Nov. 12, a jury found Florence Bikundi, 52,...
View ArticlePA Home Care Agency Charged with $100,000 Medicaid Fraud
A Philadelphia-area home health agency and its president have been charged with Medicaid fraud by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office. Hearts of Love Home Care Inc. and its president, David...
View ArticleHome Health Owner Indicted in $450,000 Kickback Scheme
The owner of an Illinois home health care company has been accused of defrauding Medicare out of at least $450,000, according to a new federal indictment. Jacqueline Tuanqui, who owns Harwood Heights,...
View ArticleThree Sentenced in $50 Million Home Health Fraud
Two physicians and a registered nurse in Louisiana were sentenced Dec. 16 for their participation in a scheme defrauding Medicare out of more than $50 million. Barbara Smith, a 67-year old doctor from...
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