Home Health Care
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Massachusetts Attorney General vs. Petra Health Care, LLC
The following describes a pending government action that has been formally brought by a government agency but has not yet been resolved. We are providing a summary of the governments allegations, which have not yet been proven.
On 12/19/2019 the Massachusetts Attorney General's office announced that Petra Health Care, LLC and its owners had both been indicted on charges of Medicaid False Claims, Larceny, and Medicaid Kickbacks.
The MA AG alleges that the owners of the business recruited at least 10 homeless individuals to live in their house rent-free, but required them, as a condition of their housing, to be MassHealth members and sign up to receive Petra’s purported home health care services. Those staying in the house were then allegedly required to sign false timesheets indicating that services like bathing, assistance getting dressed, and medication reminders, were being provided (even though they were not), or were at risk of being removed from the house. The AG’s Office alleges that the business did not actually provide many of those services, despite billing MassHealth for them. In total, the AG’s Office alleges that the defendants fraudulently obtained $543,542.19 from MassHealth as a result of the scheme.
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