tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 32

Enforcement Watch: Don't Let Patient Requests Jeopardize Compliance

Why three Louisiana SNF caregivers could go to jail.Warn your employees about the dangers of deferring to beneficiaries' billing - and personnel - requests. They could be getting in way over their head.      Former skilled nursing facility employees Charles Loston, Carolyn Fontenette and Johnnie Davis face multiple counts of conspiring with a patient's mother to commit Medicaid fraud, said Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, Jr. on July 28.     The mother, Mathilda Alexander, was charged with fourteen counts of Medicaid fraud for allegedly submitting claims for hours the caregivers...

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