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Home Health Marketer Charged $500 Per Cert Kickback

Published on Fri Apr 14, 2023

Hospice cases result in guilty verdict, plea. After a two-day trial, a federal jury has found a Houston-area home health marketer guilty of taking and paying kickbacks. Patrick Osemwengie charged Ebra Home Health $500 for an initial home health certification and $250 for a recertification, prosecutors proved. And Osemwengie paid beneficiaries to sign up for unnecessary home health services, according [...]
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