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A Home Health Provider Agrees To Pay $22.9 Million In False Claims Act Case

Home Health Care

The Oklahoma City-based home health provider Carter Healthcare will pay $22.9 million in order to resolve allegations that it paid physicians to induce referrals of patients that led to false claims to the Medicare and TRICARE programs. Gray said in the statement. It also requires compliance-related certifications from executives.

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Jonathan explains why the value of healthcare related cases under the False Claims Act ($1.8 He also urges hospitals to focus on mission over money and explains why compliance isn’t the enemy of healthcare. It’s any type of fraud scheme that is impacting the healthcare system.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

In another whistleblower case, a South Florida pharmacy owned by RLH Equity Partners raked in what the lawsuit called an “extraordinarily high” profit on more than $68 million in painkilling and scar creams billed to the military health insurance plan Tricare.

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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

In another whistleblower case, a South Florida pharmacy owned by RLH Equity Partners raked in what the lawsuit called an “extraordinarily high” profit on more than $68 million in painkilling and scar creams billed to the military health insurance plan Tricare.

Doctors 52