Home Health & Hospice Week

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HHA Execs' Check-Kiting Scheme Takes Them Down

Medicare fraud isn’t the only kind of crime that can bring down home health agency execs. Case in point: A Louisiana federal jury recently convicted a HHA chief operating officer and a chief financial officer/ controller of bank fraud in a check kiting scheme, the Department of Justice says. Charlie L. Simpson, COO of United Home Care Inc., and Charles [...]
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