Home Health & Hospice Week

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Home Care Physician Gets 2 Years In Jail

Visiting Physicians of South Jersey owner Lori Reaves has received two years in prison for "charging lengthy visits to elderly patients that they did not receive," the Department of Justice says in a release. Reaves was the highest billing home care provider among the more than 24,000 doctors in New Jersey from 2008 through 2011, the DOJ notes. In addition [...]
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