West Covina Women Charged in Alleged $4.8 Million Medicare Scheme

West Covina women charged in alleged $4.8 million Medicare scheme

Kickbacks were as much as $1,300 per patient, per each month that the patient stayed on hospice service, according to prosecutors.

Hospices faked patients’ terminal illnesses for Medicare fraud: DOJ

Two West Covina women are facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding Medicare out of millions and paying kickbacks to those who could procure them more patients for the scheme. Normita Sierra, the 71-year-old owner of two hospices in West Covina, allegedly “filed more than $4.8 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare – which paid more than $3.8 million on those claims – for medically unnecessary services for people not terminally…

Saugus nurse charged with Medicare fraud

A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday alleged a licensed nurse living in Saugus committed health care fraud in Fresno County from June 2023 to February.  Federal prosecutors in Sacramento alleged that Jesse Zayas, aka Jessa Contreras, defrauded Medicare through two companies she ran, Healing Hands Hospice Inc. and Humane Love Hospice.   Over the two-year period, Zayas, whose home was searched by federal agents last week, is accused of billing …

SoCal women charged in $4.8M healthcare fraud and kickback scheme

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