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HHA Settles Kickback Charges For $1.65 Million

Published on Fri Sep 26, 2014

A whistleblower lawsuit has led to a seven-figure settlement of kickback charges for a Miami home health agency. A Plus Home Health Care Inc. and its owners, Tracy Nemerofsky and her father, Stephen Nemerofsky, have agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle allegations that A Plus paid spouses of referring physicians for sham marketing positions in order to induce patient referrals, says the Justice [...]
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