Nurse Charged for Hospice Fraud

Jessa Zayas, CEO and owner of Healing Hands Hospice and Humane Love Hospice, has been charged with health care fraud and aggravated identity theft for submitting millions of dollars of fraudulent claims for hospice care to Medicare. Zayas and others obtained personal Medicare information for supposed hospice patients by going to retirement homes after hours. They knocked on doors and asked residents for their information so that they could enroll them in hospice. Zayas then caused the claims to be submitted with false representations about terminal illness and submitted forged doctors’ certifications. Read a story from The Business Journal  and a Department of Justice press release.

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