Four skilled nursing facilities and two financial consultants they used to bill for therapy services agreed last week to a $6 million settlement to resolve fraud allegations.
California nursing exec gets six years in prison for Medicare fraud
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Haymarket Media
Apr 21, 2004
The former chief of a California nursing home has been handed a six-and-a-half year prison sentence for his role in fraudulently inflating Medicare reimbursement payments by about $3 million through the...
Nursing home podiatrist admits overbilling ‘thousands’ of times after clipping toenails
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 16, 2015
A Missouri podiatrist has agreed to pay nearly $1 million for repeatedly billing for more complex services after clipping nursing home residents’ toenails, federal authorities recently announced....
Nursing home operators to face trial over kickback scheme
By
Ashley Carman
Jul 26, 2013
Two nursing home operators are set to stand trial to face whistleblower allegations that Omnicare Inc. paid them kickbacks during its purchase of Total Pharmacy.
The pandemic doesn’t mean you can sleep on anti-kickback law compliance
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Neville M. Bilimoria
Sep 22, 2021
On September 8, 2021, the Department of Justice, in connection with the Office of Inspector General, announced a settlement of $17 million against a home health agency that purchased two home health agencies...
Omnicare, CVS Health to ‘vigorously defend itself’ in DOJ fraud lawsuit
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Danielle Brown
Dec 17, 2019
Long-term care pharmacy services provider Omnicare and parent company CVS Health plan to “vigorously” challenge a federal lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently billing United States healthcare programs...
Omnicare to settle whistle-blower suit
By
McKnight's Staff
Aug 27, 2012
Omnicare agreed to settle over claims it provided a kickback when it bought Total Pharmacy services LLC in 2004. Terms of the deal were not released.
Feds recover record $4 billion from fraudulent healthcare claims
Jan 25, 2011
The U.S. departments of Justice and Health and Human Services recovered a total of $4 billion in fiscal 2010 from healthcare fraud cases prosecuted under the False Claims Act, according to a new report...
DOJ’s lawsuit against provider can proceed despite bankruptcy filing
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Mar 16, 2017
A federal lawsuit claiming a Tennessee-based skilled nursing operator provided “grossly substandard care” can proceed despite the provider’s bankruptcy filing, a judge ruled on Monday.
Owner of two nursing agencies charged with $5 million Medicare fraud
By
John Hall
Mar 12, 2015
The owner of two Illinois nursing agencies was arrested Tuesday on charges he allegedly defrauded Medicare out of more than $5 million for unnecessary home care services over a 44-month period. The arrest...