$6,000billed to Medicare every month a single patient stayed enrolled
A Glendale hospice operator collected about $6,000 a month from Medicare for every patient kept enrolled, and paid recruiters up to $1,000 of that per patient in illegal kickbacks.
Nita Palma was convicted on 12 counts of health care fraud and 16 kickback counts after causing roughly $10.6 million in fraudulent claims through two concealed hospices. She was sentenced to 108 months and ordered to pay $8,270,032 in restitution.
Source: US Attorney's Office, Central District of California. Read more: hospice fraud · case file