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HHA Fraud Case Is In The Details

Published on Fri Mar 09, 2012

Recruiting patients at a homeless shelter tops list of indicted agencies' alleged misdeeds. Wondering what your patients, referral sources and payor sources worry you might be up to? Check out the fraud scheme details laid out in the case against Dr. Jacques Roy and three Dallas home health agencies to get a good idea. Roy and Apple of Your Eye Healthcare Services Inc., Ultimate Care Home Health Servic-es Inc., and Charry Home Care Services Inc. face Medicare fraud charges in a purported $375 million scheme (see related story, p. 74). Here's how the feds say the fraud went down with each agency: • Apple. In January 2006, Roy entered into a "secret agreement" with Apple owners Cynthia Stiger and Wilbert James Veasey Jr. to pay all of Apple's operating expenses in return for 50 percent of the agency's profits from billing Medicare home care services, the feds allege in an [...]
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