December 16, 2015

Amer Ehsan, the owner and operator of Detroit-area home health care agency Advance Home Health Care Services Inc., was sentenced to 80 months in prison for conspiring with physicians, physical therapists and patient recruiters to bill Medicare for unnecessary home health care and therapy services and paying kickbacks to physicians for referrals.  Ehsan also admitted that he owned and controlled Michigan Rehab and Management Services LLC, which he used to sell information about Medicare beneficiaries and corresponding fictitious patient files to other Detroit-area home health care agencies.  DOJ

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