Home Health & Hospice Week
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Miami HHA Owner Pleads Guilty In $60M Scheme
Published on Thu Aug 23, 2012
A Miami home health agency owner has entered the latest guilty plea in a $60 million Medicare fraud scheme. From 2006 to 2009, Rodolfo Nieto Jr., owner of Ronat Home Health Care Inc., accepted kickbacks in return for recruiting Medicare beneficiaries to be placed at Nany Home Health Inc., the Department of Justice says in a release. As part of the scheme, Nany billed Medicare for home health services purportedly provided by Ronat, according to court documents. Nany's owners and operators were recently sentenced to seven- and ten-year terms in prison based on their guilty pleas in the scheme (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XXI, No. 17, p. 136). Nieto faces up to five years at sentencing, the DOJ notes.
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