SouthernCare Settles

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 01/16/2009 - 14:07

'Tis the season for settlements, it appears. The Birmingham (Alabama, USA) News reported ,

SouthernCare is paying the federal government $24.7 million to settle claims that the Birmingham-based hospice company fraudulently enrolled elderly people in hospice and charged Medicare for services when the patients were not dying, according to the U.S.

Department of Justice.

The lawsuits alleged that SouthernCare purposefully enrolled ineligible patients for hospice care, which is restricted to patients who have six months or less...

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