tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 16

Industry Notes

Physician Kickbacks Lead to Jail Time The feds continue to crack down on home care and hospice fraud, with kickbacks often serving as a main component of the schemes. In Detroit: Zafar Mehmood has been convicted of Medicare fraud and related charges, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a recent news release. From 2006 through 2011, Mehmood and Badar Ahmadani appear to have obtained patients by paying cash kickbacks to recruiters, who in turn paid cash to patients to induce them to sign up for home care with Mehmood’s companies. The evidence also showed that the defendants...

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