Mealey's (April 30, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 26 affirmed a woman’s conviction for violating Medicare’s kickback statute based on referrals to a home health care agency she worked for but vacated an order requiring her to pay $1.9 million in restitution because the agency provided legitimate services to the patients (United States v. Kim Ricard, No. 18-30047, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 12598)....