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Business ProfileforVitas Healthcare
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The following describes a government action that has been resolved by either a settlement or a decision by a court or administrative agency. If the matter is being appealed, it will be noted below.
On October 30, 2017, Chemed Corporation and various wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Vitas Hospice Services LLC and Vitas Healthcare Corporation, agreed to pay $75 million to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that the defendants violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting false claims for hospice services to Medicare. The settlement resolves allegations that between 2002 and 2013 Vitas knowingly submitted or caused to be submitted false claims to Medicare for services to hospice patients who were not terminally ill and thus did not qualify for the hospice benefit. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants rewarded employees with bonuses for the number of patients receiving hospice services, without regard to whether they were actually terminally ill and whether they would have benefited from continuing curative care. The settlement also resolves allegations that between 2002 and 2013, Vitas knowingly submitted or caused to be submitted false claims to Medicare for continuous home care services that were not necessary, not actually provided, or not performed in accordance with Medicare requirements. According to the complaint, the defendants set goals for the number of continuous home care days billed to Medicare and used aggressive marketing tactics and pressured staff to increase the volume of continuous home care claims, without regard to whether the patients actually required this level of crisis care. The claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only; there has been no determination of liability.
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- Location of This Business
- 521 Fellowship Rd Ste 110, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054-3442
- BBB File Opened:
- 1/3/2017
- Years in Business:
- 45
- Business Started:
- 1/1/1979
- Business Started Locally:
- 2/16/1994
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