Five Whistleblowers Share $1.7 M in Medicare Fraud Case
Whistleblowers Daryl Kaczymarczyk, Patricia Rocha, Michelle Pate, Michael Brigle and Theresa Taylor, will share $1.7 million in compensation as a result of revealing fraudulent Medicare claims filed by a former long-term acute-care service based in Dallas. SCCI Houston was part of SCCI Health Services Corp., which operated six acute-care facilities in Texas and others outside the state. The new owner of the firm has agreed to pay the federal government $7.5 million to settle allegations of fraudulent Medicare claims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this month. The problematic claims were settled by the new owner, Tribune Healthcare. Read the complete article by the Houston Chronicle online.