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Hospice Owner Charged With $14M Fraud
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Hospices aren't immune from the feds' crackdown on Medicare fraudsters.
"Kolodesh also allegedly diverted $9.36 million dollars from HCH's operating account for his own personal use, such as extensive renovations to his house, travel expenses, college tuition for his son, and a luxury automobile," the AG notes. He siphoned the cash from HCH through kickbacks from vendors and sham charitable donations made in the name of the hospice, prosecutors charge.
Kolodesh also manipulated hospice cap figures by swapping patients with his other hospice business, Community Home Health in Bucks County, and ran a scam for a $2.5 million Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation loan, the indictment says.
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