US Declines to Intervene in Heartland Hospice case The U.S. government has declined to intervene in a False Claims Act (FCA) case brought against HCR ManorCare’s hospice division, Heartland, though it asked to be kept updated on pleadings in the case. The decision to not intervene marks another victory in FCA cases for ManorCare; in […]
Horizons Hospice
The former leader of a Pittsburgh-area hospice company has pleaded guilty following accusations of using patients who weren’t terminally ill to collect millions of dollars in false Medicare and Medicaid billings. Mary Ann Stewart, a 48-year-old from Carrolltown, Pennsylvania, and ex-COO of Horizons Hospice, was indicted last year on one count of health care fraud and […]