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Jury Slaps Boston-Area HHA Owner With Guilty Verdict For Medicare Fraud

Published on Fri Dec 12, 2014

A jury has convicted At Home VNA owner Michael Galatis on multiple counts of fraud and money laundering, the Department of Justice says in a release. Galatis, an RN, caused Waltham, Mass.-based AHVNA to submit more than $27 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare from 2006 to 2012, according to prosecutors. He trained AHVNA nurses to recruit older patients on [...]
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