Whistleblowers:
Court Ruling A 'Death Knell' For Most Hospice FCA Cases
Published on Fri Sep 20, 2019
AseraCare appeals court ruling shoots down feds’ favorite strategy. A long-running whistleblower lawsuit against for-profit hospice chain AseraCare has finally netted a good result for hospices, and possibly for all Medicare providers. Background: In 2015, jurors in Alabama federal court found that 104 of the 121 claims they examined in the case against AseraCare were false. But in an unusual [...]