A group of California nursing homes run by Longwood Management Corp. will pay $16.7 million to resolve parts of two whistleblower lawsuits alleging they submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare, DOJ officials announced Monday.
The 27 affiliated facilities, all located in Southern California, were accused of a systematic effort to increase Medicare billings by submitting false claims for unnecessary rehabilitation therapy. Longwood allegedly pushed therapists to increase treatments to meet preplanned Medicare targets that were set without considering patient care.
The company, which purportedly had a business plan that called for substantial revenue from Medicare, allegedly “pressured therapists to provide additional, ...
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