Michigan-based General Medicine PC and others allegedly engaged in a yearslong healthcare fraud scheme, under which it billed Medicare for visits with nursing home residents that weren’t performed or were medically unnecessary, federal prosecutors said in a new complaint.
The defendants received tens of millions of dollars in violation of the False Claims Act under a scheme “to bill as many patient visits as possible,” the government said in a complaint filed Wednesday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
The defendants inflated their claims to Medicare by seeking payment at the highest possible rates when ...
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