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Texas Doc Convicted Of Home Health Kickbacks

Published on Fri Oct 18, 2019

The feds’ crackdown on physicians involved in Medicare fraud continues. In Texas, a jury has convicted Dr. Yolanda Hamilton on kickback charges. Prosecutors proved at trial that from January 2012 to August 2016, Hamilton signed false and fraudulent plans of care and other medical documents, and submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare to make it falsely appear that her patients were [...]
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