Home Health & Hospice Week
Whistleblower Lawsuit Costs Louisiana Home Health Agency
Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Charter Home Health has agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle whistle blower lawsuit charges that it, through its officers Wandell Rogers and Allison Williams, paid kickbacks for patient referrals from 2006 to 2012, the Department of Justice says in a release. Charter will also enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement. “Home health care providers who pay kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals will be held responsible at the settlement table. We will continue to crack down on such illegal, wasteful business kickback arrangements, which undermine medical judgement, corrode the public’s trust in the health care system, and divert scarce Medicare funding,” HHS Office of Inspector General Special Agent-in-Charge C.J. Porter says in a release.
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