tci Part B Insider - 2012 Issue 40

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The government is proving that it's no longer keeping its hands off of physicians when busting a home care fraud scheme. A federal jury in Detroit convicted physician Pramod Raval, physical therapist and HHA owner Chiradeep Gupta, and patient recruiter Richard Shannon on fraud and other counts, according to a release from the Department of Justice.In the $14.5 million scheme conducted at Patient Choice Home Healthcare Inc. and All American Home Care Inc., patient recruiters paid Medicare beneficiaries to sign blank documents for physical therapy services that were never provided and/or medically unnecessary, prosecutors said in the...

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