Guardian Hospice of Georgia and affiliated firms Guardian Home Care Holdings and AccentCare have agreed to pay $3 million to settle whistleblower claims that they submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for hospice patients that were not terminally ill, the acting U.S. attorney in Atlanta announced Oct. 2.
In disclosing the settlement, federal prosecutors also unsealed a whistleblower case filed in 2012 by the Bothwell Law Group on behalf of two former Guardian employees. Guardian admitted no liability.
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