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July 17, 2017

Ohio-based nursing home operators Foundations Health Solutions Inc., Olympia Therapy Inc. and Tridia Hospice Care Inc., and their executives Brian Colleran and Daniel Parker, agreed to pay roughly $19.5 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting to Medicare claims for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services and for hospice services to patients not eligible for the Medicare benefit, and by soliciting and receiving kickbacks to refer patients from their skilled nursing facilities to home health care provider Amber Home Care LLC.  The allegations originated in two whistleblower lawsuits filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by former Olympia employee Vladimir Trakhter and former Tridia employees Paula Bourne and La’Tasha Goodwin.  Mr. Trahkter will receive a whistleblower award of roughly $2.9 million and Ms. Bourne and Ms. Goodwin collectively will receive an award of roughly $740,000, all from the proceeds of the government’s recovery.  Whistleblower Insider

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Home Health and Hospice, Lack of Medical Necessity, Multiple Whistleblowers and First-to-File, SNF, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

July 6, 2017

New Jersey-based Compassionate Care Hospice Group, Inc. agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve charges that the company and its subsidiary Compassionate Care Hospice of Atlanta violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by engaging in improper financial relationships with contracted physicians to induce them to refer patients.  The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by former CCH Atlanta employees Cathy Morris and Josie King.  They will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the proceeds of the government's recovery.  DOJ (NDGA)

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Whistleblower Case,

July 6, 2017

Matthew Kolodesh, Alex Pugman, Svetlana Ganetsky, and Malvina Yakobashvili agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle False Claims Act allegations that they and their now-defunct company Home Care Hospice, Inc. falsely billed for hospice services that were either unnecessary or never provided.  The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by former HCH employees Maureen Fox and Cathy Gonzales.  They will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the proceeds of the government's recovery.  DOJ (EDPA)

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Medical Billing Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

July 6, 2017

Pennsylvania hospice company Compassionate Care of Gwynedd Inc., and a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Compassionate Care Hospice Group Inc., agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by providing unnecessary hospice services.  The government alleged the company admitted patients by using a diagnosis of “debility” that was not medically justified.  The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.  The whistleblowers will receive an award of more than $350,000 from the proceeds of the government's recovery.  DOJ (DNJ)

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Lack of Medical Necessity, Medicare, Whistleblower Case,

July 17, 2017

Former Olympia Therapy Inc. employee Vladimir Trakhter and former Tridia Hospice Care Inc. employees Paula Bourne and La’Tasha Goodwin will collectively receive a whistleblower award of more than $3.6 million from the roughly $19.5 million Olympia, Tridia and Foundations Health Solutions Inc. agreed to pay to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by submitting to Medicare claims for medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services and for hospice services to patients not eligible for the Medicare benefit, and by soliciting and receiving kickbacks to refer patients from their skilled nursing facilities to home health care provider Amber Home Care LLC.

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Lack of Medical Necessity, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

July 17, 2017

New York-based home health care company Visiting Nurse Service of New York and its subsidiaries VNS Choice and VNS Choice Community Care agreed to pay roughly $4.4 million to settle charges of violating the False Claims Act by improperly collecting monthly Medicaid payments for 365 Medicaid beneficiaries whom VNS Choice failed to timely disenroll from the VNS Choice Managed Long-Term Care Plan.  Once VNS disenrolled the members, it did not repay Medicaid for the funds it had improperly received. By knowingly retaining overpayments for many of these members for more than 60 days, the VNS entities violated both the federal and state false claim acts. As a result, New York State will receive $2.63 million as part of the settlement agreement.The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by an undisclosed whistleblower.  The whistleblower will receive an undisclosed whistleblower award from the proceeds of the government's recovery.  DOJ (SDNY)  NY

Tagged in: FCA Federal, FCA State, Healthcare Fraud, Home Health and Hospice, Medicaid, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

July 6, 2017

Cathy Morris and Josie King, former employees of Compassionate Care Hospice of Atlanta, will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the $24 million the company and its parent Compassionate Care Hospice Group, Inc. agreed to pay to resolve charges they violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law by engaging in improper financial relationships with contracted physicians to induce them to refer patients.  DOJ (NDGA)

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Whistleblower Case,

July 6, 2017

Maureen Fox and Cathy Gonzales, former employees of now-defunct Home Care Hospice, Inc., will receive a yet-to-be-determined whistleblower award from the millions of dollars to be paid by the owners of the company to settle charges they falsely billed for hospice services that were either unnecessary or never provided.  DOJ (EDPA)

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Whistleblower Case,

July 6, 2017

Whistleblowers will receive an award of more than $350,000 from the $2 million Pennsylvania hospice company Compassionate Care of Gwynedd Inc. agreed to pay to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act by providing unnecessary hospice services.  DOJ (DNJ)

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Whistleblower Case,

June 16, 2017

Pennsylvania-based skilled nursing facility operator Genesis Healthcare Inc. agreed to pay roughly $53.6 million to settle charges that companies and facilities acquired by Genesis violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of false claims to government health care programs for medically unnecessary therapy and hospice services, and grossly substandard nursing care. The allegations originated in a whistleblower lawsuit filed under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act by Joanne Cretney-Tsosie, Jennifer Deaton, Kimberley Green, Camaren Hampton, Teresa McAree, Terri West, and Brian Wilson, former employees of companies acquired by Genesis. They collectively will receive a whistleblower award of $9.67 million from the proceeds of the government's recovery. DOJ

Tagged in: FCA Federal, Home Health and Hospice, Lack of Medical Necessity, SNF, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

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