Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

3 Texas HHA Owners Draw 3-Year Prison Sentences In Medicare Fraud Case

Three HHA owners have drawn threeyear prison sentences in a $1.3 million Medicare fraud scheme. The two husband-and-wife owners of Alliance Healthcare Services— Ernest and Edith Amadi and George and Agatha Opurum — and patient recruiter Ollie Futrell pled guilty to a scheme in which records were falsified to make Alliance patients who were not homebound appear so, prosecutors say [...]
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