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California Provider Faces 20-Year Exclusion

Published on Fri Feb 02, 2024

A California home health agency and owner have agreed to a 20-year exclusion from Medicare after employing an excluded individual — but that wasn’t the only problem. Independence Home Healthcare Inc. (IHH) and Jose Vincente Perez have entered into a settlement agreement with the HHS Office of Inspector General in which they agreed to pay $377,773.70 and be excluded from [...]
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