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17 Dec 2018, 7:07 am by The Health Law Partners
In two whistleblower complaints filed in 2013 by two former employees, one of which who worked as a clinical director in a Pennsylvania branch, SouthernCare Inc. is accused of wrongly billing Medicare for unnecessary hospice care. [read post]
Kindred Healthcare Inc., the nation's largest post-acute care provider (after acquiring Gentiva Healthcare in 2015) recently paid more than $3 million to the federal government as sanctions for inaccurate billing practices under Medicare for hospice services. [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 6:45 am
Hospice Care of Kansas LLC, based in Witchita, Kansas, and its parent company, Voyager HospiceCare, Inc. based in Fort Worth, Texas (collectively "HospiceCare"), have agreed to settle a whistleblower suit for $6.1 million. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 7:14 am
An indictment was unsealed this week charging five nurses formerly employed at Home Care Hospice Inc, Philadelphia, with multi-million-dollar fraud on Medicare. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 11:53 am
SouthernCare Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. $24.7 million to settle allegations that the hospice facility submitted false claims to the government, attempting to gain reimbursement for care it had given. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 12:00 pm by Greene LLP
Frontier Home Health and Hospice LLC (“Frontier”) filed a complaint yesterday against Amedisys Holding, L.L.C. and Amedisys, Inc. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 5:15 pm
According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, the FBI announced in late March that it had arrested five nurses at Home Care Hospice Inc. of Philadelphia, a for-profit hospice. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 4:15 pm by Rosenbaum & Associates
According to the Philadelphia Business Journal, the FBI announced in late March that it had arrested five nurses at Home Care Hospice Inc. of Philadelphia, a for-profit hospice. [read post]
12 May 2022, 6:59 am by Robert Liles
State prosecutors have alleged that these hospices: Enrolled patients into hospice who were not terminally ill; or Enrolled patients into hospice care, without the patients’ knowledge; or Enrolled patients into hospice care despite the fact that the patients didn’t have an understanding of what hospice entails. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 12:18 pm by Ben Vernia
According to DOJ’s press release:The United States has filed suit against Creekside Hospice II LLC, Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 12:40 pm
Medicare’s benefit, which covers hospice care, is only for patients that are terminally ill. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 4:33 am by Ben Vernia
According to DOJ’s press release: Guardian Hospice of Georgia LLC, Guardian Home Care Holdings Inc. and AccentCare Inc. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:28 pm by Ben Vernia
According to DOJ’s press release: The government has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit against Hospice of the Comforter Inc. [read post]
16 May 2010, 10:22 am
Murphy, Jr.Held: A claim under the Health Care Worker Whistleblower Protection Act is cognizable even if the plaintiff did not report an alleged violation to an external board and even if the employees committing such violation did not have authority to set company policy.Facts: The plaintiff worked for Montgomery Hospice, Inc. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 1:49 pm by luiza
Medicare will not cover hospice care unless a qualifying physician certifies the patient is terminally ill, meaning expected to live no more than six months. [read post]
2 May 2013, 8:36 pm by Ben Vernia
The reimbursement rate for crisis care services is the highest daily rate a hospice can bill Medicare, and hospices are paid hundreds of dollars more on a daily basis for each patient they certify as having received crisis care services rather than routine hospice services. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 7:38 am
Following a December challenge in the Northern District of Texas, the ninth circuit (Los Angeles Haven Hospice, Inc. v. [read post]