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Fraud & Abuse:

Don't Let Internal Audits Cost You Millions

Published on Fri Dec 30, 2016

Ignore a hospice patient who has been on service for 5 years at your own peril. If you disregard the findings of internal investigations — or even just stall on acting on them — you could face a steep penalty. Case in point: Former Caris Healthcare employee Barbara Hinkle filed a qui tam lawsuit in 2014, alleging that the Knoxville, [...]
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