Thursday, December 17, 2020
As discussed in our Client Alert issued on December 10, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two long-awaited final rules that modernize and change the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations. The final rule involves numerous changes, including long-awaited changes to the personal services and management contracts safe harbor under the AKS. This alert addresses key changes to the personal services and management contracts safe harbor of the AKS to enable greater flexibility for payment arrangements in value-based models.
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Texas Man Sentenced To 20 Years For Hospice Fraud Scheme
By Laurel Wamsley
December 17, 2020
A Texas corporate executive has been sentenced by a federal jury to 20 years in prison for running a scheme in which people with long-term illnesses were falsely told they would die soon, and then enrolled them in hospice programs.
In the scheme, thousands of patients with diseases like Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia were told they had just six months to live. Going on palliative care meant that they were no longer able to have medical insurance cover curative medical services, the Justice Department said in a press release Thursday.
The Department of Justice announced that a Texas man convicted last year of fraud and money laundering was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Rodney Mesquias owned a company that falsely told people they would die within six months in order to sell them hospice care. Alex Edelman / AFP via Getty Images
Originally published on December 18, 2020 10:57 am
A Texas corporate executive has been sentenced by a federal jury to 20 years in prison for running a scheme in which people with long-term illnesses were falsely told they would die soon, and then enrolled them in hospice programs.
In the scheme, thousands of patients with diseases like Alzheimer s and other types of dementia were told they had just six months to live, the Justice Department said in a press release Thursday. Entering hospice care meant that Medicare would not cover curative medical treatment.
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Owner of hospice companies sentenced to 20-years in prison for $150 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme
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A corporate executive has been ordered to serve 20 years in prison after his conviction related to falsely telling thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and dementia, they had less than six months to live and subsequently enrolling them in hospice programs.
A federal jury in McAllen, Texas, convicted Rodney Mesquias, 48, of San Antonio, Texas. The one-month trial in November 2019 was one of the first criminal hospice fraud prosecutions the Department of Justice has presented to a federal jury.