Panel: Evidence Sufficient To Support Convictions In Health Care Fraud Suit

Mealey's (March 31, 2022, 2:14 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury did not err in convicting two men for their roles in a health care fraud scheme to defraud Medicare by certifying patients for home health and hospice services regardless of whether the patients were eligible for such services because evidence provided by government prosecutors was overwhelmingly sufficient to support the guilty verdicts entered against both men, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 24 in affirming....