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Hospice Owner Sentenced To 20 Years

Published on Wed Dec 30, 2020

The owner of a chain of Texas hospices has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and $120 million in restitution for Medicare fraud and kickbacks, after being convicted in a high-profile trial in November 2019. Rodney Mesquias “funded his lavish lifestyle by exploiting patients with long-term, incurable diseases by enrolling them in expensive but unnecessary hospice services,” Acting Assistant [...]
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