Home Health & Hospice Week

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Doc Pleads Guilty In Home Health Scam

A Michigan physician has pled guilty to offering prescriptions for controlled substances to Medicare beneficiaries in exchange for them becoming his patients and home health patients, the Department of Justice says in a release. Home health agencies then used bogus home health “precriptions” from Thomas Mays to bill Medicare for unnecessary services, and Mays also billed for his own unnecessary [...]
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