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HHA Settles Kickback Charges For $1.65 Million
A whistleblower lawsuit has led to a seven-figure settlement of kickback charges for a Miami home health agency.
A Plus Home Health Care Inc. and its owners, Tracy Nemerofsky and her father, Stephen Nemerofsky, have agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle allegations that A Plus paid spouses of referring physicians for sham marketing positions in order to induce patient referrals, says the Justice Department in a release. The company allegedly hired at least seven physicians’ spouses and one physician’s boyfriend to perform marketing duties, but required the spouses and boyfriend to perform few, if any, actual job duties. According to the complaint, Tracy Nemerofsky fired at least two spouses when their husbands failed to refer a certain number of patients to A Plus.
Tracy Nemerofsky allegedly reaped large rewards for the scheme, receiving a salary of $685,000 from A Plus in 2010, when A Plus’ business increased as a result of Medicare referrals generated from the sham marketer scheme, the DOJ says.
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