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July 6, 2017

Posted  August 8, 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,