Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

Whistleblowers Rake In 6-Figure Award In Texas Fraud Settlement

A sham medical director arrangement is at the center of a Texas home health fraud case. Teresita Lumanas Alquero, former owner of Providence Home Health and Providence Hospice in Houston, will pay $1.05 million to settle charges that she paid a physician medical directorship payments that “exceeded fair market value and were paid over a two-year period to induce him [...]
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