Home Health & Hospice Week
Physician Assistant Convicted In Illinois Home Health Fraud Case
Another person indicted in a massive Illinois home health fraud scheme has been convicted. Earlier this fall, home health agency owners Patricia Omorogbe and Felix Omorogbe received jail time and were ordered to repay $8.2 million in restitution for a scheme in which their HHAs, A&Z Home Health Care and Dominion Home Health Care in Lansing and Alliance Home Health Care in Hammond, Indiana, falsely billed for home care services (see HHHW, Vol. XXXI, No. 36). Now an unlicensed medical assistant for a physician in Chicago has been found guilty of forging her physician employer’s signature on certification forms and supporting documentation, which caused Medicare beneficiaries to be enrolled in over 2,000 episodes of home health care at A&Z and Dominion, the Department of Justice says in a release. The Omorogbes paid Rhonda Sutton kickbacks in exchange for the forged forms, the DOJ says. Sutton is scheduled for sentencing in March.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Physician Assistant Convicted In Illinois Home Health Fraud Case
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