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Docs Don't Escape Penalties In Home Care Fraud Cases

Published on Thu Nov 19, 2015

Sham consulting arrangement leads to one physician’s guilty plea. A group of guilty pleas resulting from a home care fraud investigation includes one from a physician that allegedly accepted a sham consulting arrangement with Abide Home Care Services in New Orleans. Threasa Adderley didn’t perform the services set out in her consulting agreement, and she “routinely compromised her medical judgment [...]
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