Home Health & Hospice Week
HHA Fraudster Receives 20-Year Prison Sentence
Miami continues to attract fraud-fighting scrutiny. A Miami-area HHA owner and manager has received a hefty 20-year prison sentence for billing for services that weren’t medically necessary or weren’t provided at all, the Department of Justice says in a release. Khaled Elbeblawy, who managed Willsand Home Health Agency Inc. and owned JEM Home Health Care and Healthy Choice Home Health Services Inc., paid kickbacks to doctors, patient recruiters and staffing groups in a $57 million scheme, prosecutors proved at trial in January.
Also in Miami: Ramon Collado Gonzalez has pled guilty to pretending to be the owner of Golden Home Health Care Inc. in Miami in exchange for monthly payments and periodic bonuses, the DOJ says in a release. Collado admitted to receiving about $4.2 million from the real owners, Mildrey Gonzalez and Milka Alfaro, to conceal their ownership. Mildrey Gonzalez and Alfaro face a variety of charges in the scheme, the DOJ adds.
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