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Fourth-Largest HH Provider Settles False Claims Charges For $48 Million

Published on Fri Jul 12, 2019

Encompass Health Corp. has settled charges that it upcoded inpatient rehabilitation facility claims for $48 million, and three whistle­blowers will receive $12.4 million of it. Beginning in 2007, some Encompass IRFs falsely diagnosed patients with what they referred to as “disuse myopathy” when there was no clinical evidence for this diagnosis, and admitted patients who were ineligible for IRF services, [...]
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