Lois Armstrong and David Daucher closed their for-profit hospice in October to get out from under more than $27 million in refunds it owed the federal Medicare program, they said.
The same week, they opened a new hospice with new owners. As a result, the refunds, owed to Medicare for five years’ worth of overpayments to Sojourn Care of Tulsa, Oklahoma, may never go back to taxpayers. The government links the debt to Sojourn Care, not to its owners, said Brian Daucher, an attorney for the company who is David Daucher’s nephew.
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