Home Health & Hospice Week
HHA RN Pleads Guilty In Houston Fraud Case
An RN has pleaded guilty to his role in a Houston home care fraud scheme. Charles Esechie worked for both Baptist Home Care Providers Inc. and the Harris County, Texas, Hospital District, the Department of Justice says in a release. Esechie pleaded guilty to creating false documentation for patients he never saw; pretending he saw patients when he was really working at his other hospital job; seeing patients for only five to 10 minutes in groups at a patient recruiter’s home and then documenting as though he completed comprehensive evaluations of them; knowing that Baptist owner Godwin Oriakhi paid kickbacks to recruiters for patient referrals; and knowing the Baptist services were often not delivered or were medically unnecessary, the DOJ says. Esechie admitted that he, Oriakhi, and others submitted about $5.1 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, and received about $4.8 million on those claims. He faces sentencing in August. Oriakhi’s daughter and the administrator of several of his home health agencies, Idia Oriakhi, and patient recruiter Jermaine Doleman already have pleaded guilty in the case and await sentencing, according to the release. Godwin Oriakhi is scheduled to go to trial April 11.
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HHA RN Pleads Guilty In Houston Fraud Case
An RN has pleaded guilty to his role in a Houston home care fraud scheme. [...]
