Industry Note:
Hospice Fraud Settlement Pays Whistleblower $900K
Published on Fri Feb 09, 2018
Haven Hospice, the hospice provider that recently announced the closing of affiliate VNA and Hospice of the Florida Keys, has agreed to pay $5.1 million to resolve allegations that Haven billed Medicare for medically unnecessary and undocumented hospice services. Since June 2011, Gainesville, Florida-based Haven treated at least 63 patients with lengths of stay exceeding three years, the Department of [...]