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Prosecutors Zero In On Hospice Kickbacks

Published on Fri Mar 13, 2020

Aggressive marketing goals are partly to blame for a hospice’s $1.75 million fraud settlement. From 2013 to 2017, STG Healthcare of At-lanta Inc. submitted claims for patients who weren’t terminally ill, the Department of Justice says in a release. “STG Healthcare’s business practices — setting aggressive goals for enrolling patients and failing to supervise properly the admission practices of its [...]
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