Posts Tagged ‘home health fraud’
Home Health Owner Sentenced for Role in Healthcare Fraud Conspiracy
A 72-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars after pleading guilty to a $21 million, multiyear home health fraud scheme. He also was ordered to pay $21.2 million in restitution. Felix Amos pleaded guilty in Dec. 2018 to conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud. Amos and his wife, Oluyemisi Amos, were indicted…
Read MoreGroup Home Owners Convicted in $1M Fraud Scheme
A Texas couple who owned and operated group homes recently was found guilty of perpetrating a $1 million dollar scheme to defraud Medicare. Lindell King, 52, and his wife Ynedra Diggs, 44 were charged with sending their group home residents to Behavioral Medicine of Houston (BMH), in exchange for kickbacks. BMH was a community mental…
Read MoreOIG Cracks Down on Home Health Questionable Billing Practices
A few years back, as part of its Work Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced it was seeking to identify home health agencies, supervising physicians, and geographic areas whose Medicare claims had characteristics similar to those observed by the agency in cases of home health…
Read MoreOIG Report Finds Vulnerabilities at HHAs That Could Lead to Fraud
Home health agencies are required to submit to onsite surveys to ensure they are complying with Medicare standards. But a recent report from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) finds that in at least one aspect of the survey HHAs may be skirting their responsibilities. As…
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