CHICAGO (CBS) Operators of a home health care service have been indicted, along with a nurse and two marketers, for kickbacks related to $5 million in Medicare billing. <\/p>\n
As WBBM Newsradios John Cody reports, the owners of Goodwill Home Nursing Services in Lincolnwood Marilyn Maravilla and Junjee Arroyo; a nurse Ferdinand Echavia; and two marketers Rakeshkumar Shah and Jean Holloway have been charged with giving and receiving $400,000 in kickbacks for finding and retaining patiens, whose home health care bills could be charged to Medicare. <\/p>\n
U.S. Attorneys office spokesman Randall Samborn says the issue isnt whether or not someone made home care visits. <\/p>\n
These services should be based on medical necessity, and on whats in the patients best interests, and not based on whether or not someone in the medical industry is receiving a kickback for giving a loan, Samborn said. <\/p>\n
So far, marketers Holloway and Shah have pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n
Samborn says so far, four dozen people have been charged with health care fraud since a federal strike force began operating last year in Chicago. <\/p>\n
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