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Hospice Chain Acquired By Humana Settles Whistleblower Charges For $5.9 Million
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Former clinical director is one of the qui tam relators. 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 Justice release. “The company allegedly treated some patients for many years.” RN Hamrock, who was a former clinical director for a Newcastle, Pennsylvania, location, raised the issues involved in her 2013 whistleblower suit before leaving the company, says the law firm that represented her, The Employment Law Group. Beegle worked in the Atlanta-based company’s Altoona location and filed her suit after Hamrock, according to a release from the Washington, D.C.-based firm. SouthernCare parent Curo Health Services, itself acquired by Humana and private equity partners earlier this year to combine with Kindred at Home’s hospice unit, bought SouthernCare in 2014.
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