Longwood Management Corporation and 27 affiliated skilled nursing facilities have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary. Longwood allegedly pressured therapists to increase the amount of therapy provided to patients to meet preplanned targets for Medicare revenue. Read a story from Skilled Nursing News. Read a Department of Justice press release.
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