Doctor convicted of $2.8M hospice Medicare fraud scheme
02/21/24 at 03:30 AM
Doctor convicted of $2.8M hospice Medicare fraud scheme
HomeCare; 2/20/24
A federal jury convicted a California man for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing $2.8 million for hospice services that patients did not need. From October 2014 to March 2016, [John] Thropay fraudulently certified Medicare patients ... as having terminal illnesses that the patients did not have ... [in order to] bill Medicare for hospice services. In 2015, Thropay was listed as an attending provider for more hospice claims paid by Medicare than any other provider in the nation.