Home Health & Hospice Week

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Whistleblower To Net $672K In Elara FCA Settlement With The Feds

Patient ineligibility, missing election statements, ignored audit results feature in qui tam lawsuit. The hot seat is getting even hotter for Elara Caring. In addition to facing a high-profile wrongful death suit after one of its nurses was killed allegedly by a convicted sex offender patient (see story, p. 122), the chain has just settled a whistleblower lawsuit over hospice [...]
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