Health Care Fraud: Texas Hospice CEO Gets 15 Years Jail Time; Florida Businesswoman Faces 13 Years Prison Sentence

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Wolfe admitted that she purchased numerous personal items and services using Regency’s funds and falsely declared them as business expenditures for the tax year 2017.

Wold and her company reached a civil settlement with the Justice Department and agreed to pay up to $20,332, 516 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.

In a statement, DOJ Civil Division Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton said, “The department is committed to ensuring that federal health care program providers do not place their own financial gain over patients’ clinical needs. When medical professionals and companies knowingly commit fraud to maximize their profits, we will hold them accountable for their unlawful conduct.”

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