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Pittsburgh Hospice COO Faces Medicare Fraud Charges
Published on Thu Mar 05, 2015
The chief operations officer for a Pittsburgh hospice faces Medicare fraud charges, according to a Department of Justice release. Mary Ann Stewart ran a scheme in which she caused Horizons Hospice staff to place non-qualifying patients into hospice care that were not appropriate, and then recertified the patients for continued hospice care, according to the indictment. Stewart also allegedly [...]