U.S. JOINS WHISTLEBLOWER SUIT SAYING ASERACARE HOSPICE MISBILLED MILLIONS TO MEDICARE

The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in a whistleblower suit against AseraCare Hospice for mis-billing Medicare millions of dollars for treatment of individuals are were not terminally ill. Golden Gate Ancillary LLC d/b/a AseraCare is a for profit business with 65 hospice providers in 19 states. An individual is entitled to hospice care paid for by Medicare only when they are terminally ill. AseraCare entered individuals into its hospicecare program, according to the complaint, who were not diagnosed as being terminally ill. In recent months there have been several similar suits against other hospicecare companies who are servicing individuals who are not terminally ill and mis-billing millions to Medicare. The whistleblower suit was filed by Dawn Richardson and Marsha Brown, former employees of AseraCare Hospice and they will be entitled to obtain a reward of between 15-25% of what the government recovers.