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Doc Pays $640K To Settle Home Health Kickback Charges

Published on Thu Oct 14, 2021

Plus: Medicaid home health agency to fork over whopping $2.9 million for ghost hours. It’s not always the home health agency and its personnel who have to pay big for kickback-related schemes. So shows a new Louisiana fraud case. Internal medicine physician Llewelyn Simon has agreed to pay the United States $640,000 to resolve allegations that he accepted payments for [...]
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