“Second hospice employee pleads guilty in alleged $60 million kickback scheme involving assisted living communities,” by Lois A. Bowers, McKnight’s Senior Living
“A second former employee of a now-defunct hospice company has pleaded guilty for her role in an alleged $60 million Medicare fraud scheme that, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, paid assisted living communities and physicians in exchange for referring ineligible Medicare or Medicaid beneficiaries, some of whom then were given excessive dosages of medication that injured or killed them.”
LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):
Assisted living started down a slippery slope when it began accepting Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement with their lack of effective fraud control.
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