October 28, 2013
A Florida federal judge on Monday approved a $3 million settlement in a False Claims Act suit alleging Hospice of the Comforter Inc. defrauded Medicare, shooting down objections from the whistleblower who argued that the deal was unreasonably low.
September 06, 2012
The federal government has intervened in an $11 million whistleblower suit from a former employee who claims an Orlando hospice billed Medicare for palliative treatments it provided to elderly patients who were not terminally ill, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.