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HHAs Fight Reputational Damage In Wake Of Fraud Bust

Published on Fri Mar 09, 2012

Stay tuned to find out the identities of the 78 suspended HHAs. The entire home care industry is getting painted with the broad fraud brush the feds are using to depict Dr. Jacques Roy and his alleged co-conspirators in the largest home care fraud scam ever busted, and more fraud busts may be on the way. Recap: The feds have charged Roy and owners from Apple of Your Eye Healthcare Ser-vices Inc., Ultimate Care Home Health Services Inc., and Charry Home Care Services Inc. in the Dallas area with a massive $375 million home care fraud scheme. Payments went back and forth between Roy and the HHAs for patients that didn't really need home care services, alleges an indictment unsealed Feb. 28 (see more details of the charges in Eli's HCW, Vol. XXI, No. 9, p. 68 and in story, p. 76). Speculation continues to run wild about which home [...]
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