Home Health & Hospice Week
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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 make false statements before a grand jury.
Last fall, Horizons medical director Oliver W. Herndon pled guilty to falsely certifying that patients for hospice care (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXIII, No. 39). He faces sentencing this summer.
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