Home Health & Hospice Week
Huge Home-Care Fraud Scheme Uncovered
A huge home care fraud bust yielded seven arrests of individuals allegedly involved in a scheme that bilked Medicare of $22 million, reports the Department of Justice. Federal agents arrested the seven individuals, who were swiftly indicted on 18 counts of Medicare fraud.
The defendants allegedly operated the fraud scheme out of four Oakland County, Mich. home health agencies: Royal Home Health Care Inc., Prestige Home Health Services Inc., Platinum Home Health Services Inc., and Empirical Home Health Care Inc. Since August 2008, Medicare purportedly paid the four HHAs $22 million worth of fraudulent claims.
Of the seven defendants, Muhammad Aamir and Usman Butt owned and operated Prestige, while Butt, Hemal Bhagat and Syed Shah owned and operated Royal. Aamir also owned and operated Platinum and Empirical. Tariq Tahir and Raquel Ellington allegedly recruited Medicare beneficiaries and paid them kickbacks for use of their information and signatures on documents listing services never performed or not medically necessary, the DOJ states.
In addition to the health care fraud charges, several of the defendants also face conspiracy, money laundering and anti-kickback violation charges.
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