Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Bogus Home Health Referrals Feature In Latest Fraud Case From Detroit

A Detroit-area physician has pled guilty to a conspiracy charge in a wide-ranging Medicare fraud scheme that included home health. Abdul Haq "referred Medicare beneficiaries to specific third party home health agencies ... even though those referrals were medically unnecessary," the Department of Justice notes in a release. Other parts of the $19 million scheme involved prescribing medically unnecessary drugs [...]
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