
California Hospice Care paid marketers to recruit Medicare and Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The patients were assessed by nurses to determine if they were terminally ill. But regardless of the nurse assessments, Wijegoonaratna and Huang certified that the patients were dying, even though most were not. The false certifications were used to submit bills for unnecessary hospice-related services. (HT: US DOJ)
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