Industry Note:
Hospice Settles For $1.2M
Published on Fri Mar 23, 2018
A for-profit hospice chain and its CEO have agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle Medicare fraud charges first raised in two whistleblower lawsuits. The settled claims contended that Monroeville, Pennsylvania-based Horizons Hospice, which later changed its name to 365 Hospice, and CEO John C. Rezk submitted claims for patients who were ineligible for hospice because they did not have [...]