Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Whistleblowers Get Big Chunk Of $5.9M Hospice Settlement

Two former hospice employees will rake in $1.1 million of the $5.9 million settlement nine state hospice chain SouthernCare Inc. has agreed to. In separate lawsuits, qui tam relators Dawn Hamrock and Patricia Beegle alleged that SouthernCare “admitted patients into hospice who were not terminally ill and lacked appropriate medical documentation showing such an illness,” according to a Department of [...]
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