Home Health & Hospice Week

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New Orleans HH Patient Recruiter Convicted

A patient recruiter has been convicted of Medicare fraud in a scam centering around mentally ill Medicare patients. Evidence at trial showed that from 2008 to 2013, Kim Ricard and others “engaged in a scheme to refer mentally ill Medicare patients to home health agencies in and around New Orleans, in exchange for kickbacks,” the Department of Justice says in [...]
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