Home Health & Hospice Week

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HHA Owner Indicted For Kickbacks

A Texas RN and former home health agency owner is facing charges that she received kickbacks disguised as employee salaries from a local pharmacy and in turn, paid a physician and employees of his medical clinic for home health referrals. Nora Alaniz received over $70,000 in kickbacks in the scheme involving her Hidalgo County agency, the Department of Justice alleges [...]
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