Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Miami Patient Recruiter Pleads Guilty

A patient recruiter for a Miami HHA has pled guilty for his role in a $48 million Medi-care fraud scheme. Emilio Amador recruited pa-tients for Caring Nurse Home Health Care Corp. Amador solicited and received kickbacks and bribes from the owners and operators of Caring Nurse in return for allowing Caring Nurse to bill the Medicare program on behalf of [...]
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