Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Doc Draws 9-Year Sentence For Home Care Fraud

After pleading guilty in February to receiving kickbacks in exchange for writing bogus home care prescriptions and falsifying patient records to make it appear they qualified for home care, physician Henry Lora has received a nine-year prison sentence. The Miami-area doc also was ordered to repay $30.3 million in restitution, the Department of Justice says in a release. Lora was [...]
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