American Senior Communities LLC (ASC), a provider of skilled nursing and long-term care services, agreed to pay almost $5.6 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare. A former employee of a hospice services company doing business with ASC filed a sealed civil complaint, or “whistleblower” lawsuit, that alleged that ASC was charging Medicare directly for various therapy services provided to beneficiaries who had been placed on hospice. Those services should have already been covered by the beneficiaries’ Medicare hospice coverage. Read a story from the Indianapolis Star, watch and read a story from WTHR, and read a Department of Justice press release.
SMP Resource Center products often contain links to copyrighted material. The SMP Resource Center is providing these links as a convenience and for informational purposes in our efforts to report and educate on Medicare fraud; they do not constitute a guarantee, endorsement, or approval by SMP of any of the information available on the external site. SMP bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality, or content of the external site or for that of subsequent links. If you have any questions or concerns about the links provided, please contact the SMP Center at nliebau@smpresource.org.