Industry Note:
Virginia HHA Owner Indicted For Bogus Claims
Published on Thu Jun 07, 2012
A Medicaid home care agency owner in Virginia has been indicted for submitting claims for services that were never provided, says a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.Janice Holland, owner of A Caring Hand Home Health Care Services Inc. in Suffolk, filed about 1,100 bogus claims with the Virginia Medi-caid program, representing that respite care had been provided by her company to 30 Medicaid recipients, when in fact no such care had been provided, according to the indictment. Holland filed the claims using, without authority, the recipients' names and medical information. She also "altered and falsified her office records to conceal and cover up her false billings," the prosecutors allege.The case was investigated by the FBI and the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.