Former employees of a hospice provider received $244,529.87 for exposing billing practices that violated Medicare rules. The whistleblower lawsuit was filed against Harmony Care Hospice Inc., and included allegations that the hospice facilities knowingly submitted false claims for patients who were not eligible for hospice care because they did not have a terminal prognosis of six months or less.
To resolve the claims raised in this whistleblower case, the defendants agreed to pay the United States $1,286,999.32.
For more information on this case, click here: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/November/12-civ-1401.html