Home Health & Hospice Week
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HHA Owner Gets 20 Months For OASIS Falsification
Published on Thu Sep 13, 2012
Illegally changing OASIS assessments has netted one Illinois woman a 20-month prison sentence. Merigrace Orillo, co-owner and operator of Chalice Home Healthcare Services Inc., re-ceived the sentence after admitting to falsifying documents and paying a cash kickback to a doctor, the Department of Justice says in a release. The documentation falsifications "made Chalice's patients appear to be sicker than they actually were and in need of greater care than they actually required," the DOJ notes. Orillo's husband, Virgilio Orillo, died while facing charges in the scheme.
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