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VITAS Slapped With False Claims Lawsuit

Published on Fri May 10, 2013

Suit focuses on continuous home care More proof that the feds are cracking down on the hospice sector has emerged, now that the government has revealed it’s filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against for-profit hospice chain VITAS and its parent Chemed Corp. VITAS billed for continuous home care when patients really only qualified for routine home care, the Department [...]
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