Woman Pleads Guilty in Hospice Case

Lynn Galbraith, an owner and operator of Azure Hospice Care Inc., pleaded guilty to submitting more than $2.2 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare for hospice services for beneficiaries who were not terminally ill. She either knew the beneficiaries did not qualify for hospice or knew that they did not have sufficient medical records supporting a diagnosis and prognosis that qualified them for hospice benefits. She did not routinely coordinate with the beneficiaries’ primary care physicians about their purported conditions or terminal prognoses. Read a story(opens in new tab)  from Yahoo News and a Department of Justice press release(opens in new tab).

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