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HHA Owners, Docs, RNs Indicted In Chicago

Don't be surprised if it takes months -- or longer -- to see additional indictments come down in the fraud case involving Dr. Jacques Roy and three Dallas area home health agencies. And those indictments may apply even to the "little guys" at a fraudulent agency. Just look at a big fraud indictment from last summer against Chicago area HHA owner Jacinto "John" Gabriel Jr., owner of Perpetual Home Health Inc. in Oak Forest, Ill., and Legacy Home Healthcare Services. Prosecutors indicted Gabriel then, but now they've added 11 new defendants to the case, including two physicians, four registered nurses, and three data entry staff, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois says in a release. Gabriel and his co-conspirators billed Medicare without beneficiaries' knowledge or consent; paid kickbacks to physicians; and created false documentation to support the bogus claims, among other charges, according to the indictment. Gabriel and his [...]
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