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November 5, 2019
A home health agency that allegedly defrauded Medicare and Louisiana’s Medicaid program has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle claims arising from a qui tam suit. Defendants Health Care Options, Inc., Health Care Options of Lafayette, Inc., Home Care Options Houston, Inc., and Howard Austin, II allegedly submitted reimbursement claims involving non-face-to-face encounters, as required by program rules. USAO MDLAOctober 28, 2019
Atheir Amarrah, the owner of Michigan-based Prompt Care Home Health Services Inc, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to paying recruiters for referrals to Medicare beneficiaries. In his guilty plea, Amarrah also admitted to billing Medicare for claims tainted by illegal kickbacks. DOJOctober 17, 2019
Five home health providers in Iowa and South Dakota have been ordered to pay a combined $3.1 million for submitting false claims to Medicare. Affiliates of Minnesota-based Welcov Healthcare LLC allegedly billed Medicare for therapy services that were not provided by skilled employees or not medically necessary. Sergeant Bluff Healthcare, LLC will pay over $1.2 million, Logan Healthcare, LLC and Elk Point Healthcare #1, LLC will each pay over $775,000, Red Oak Healthcare, LLC will pay over $228,000, and Flandreau Healthcare 2, LLC will pay about $116,000. USAO NDIASeptember 9, 2019
DC-based hospice and palliative care provider Capital Caring has agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle allegations that it billed Medicare for services performed on ineligible patients or submitted without proper documentation. USAO EDVAGovernment Documents Dangerous Failures in Hospice-Care Facilities
Posted 07/19/19
June 11, 2019
Two additional co-defendants in a recently reported home health fraud case have been sentenced to 6-10 years in prison and ordered to pay over $4.3 million each for their involvement. Angela Avetisyan and Ashot Minasyan, the co-owners and operators of Fifth Avenue Home Health, paid kickbacks to Marina Merino and other patient recruiters to bring Medicare patients to a clinic owned by Robert Glazer. In exchange, they received referrals from Glazer’s clinic for home health services that were allegedly medically unnecessary. DOJ; USAO CDCAUnited States Intervenes in Home Health Care Fraud Case
Posted 05/30/19
