Home Health & Hospice Week
Industry Note:
Mississippi Physician Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Bogus Hospice Referrals, Kickbacks
Published on Fri Sep 01, 2017
A Mississippi physician convicted in a hospice fraud scheme has received a prison sentence of more than three years, three years of supervised release, and an order for $1.9 million in restitution, the Department of Justice says in a release. Dr. Nathaniel Brown pled guilty in January to referring patients who were not hospice-appropriate to Milestone Hospice and Sandanna Hospice, and to receiving $47,750 in payments by check from the hospice owner in addition to cash payments, the DOJ says.
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