Hospice Care of Kansas LLC and its parent company Voyager HospiceCare Inc. have agreed to pay $6.1 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that they fraudulently billed Medicare for ineligible hospice services. The federal program provides hospice benefits for patients diagnosed with terminal illnesses carrying life expectancies of six months or less. Hospice Care of Kansas, authorities allege, billed Medicare for patients who had not received a prognosis of six months or less. The case began as a qui tam action by a Hospice Care nurse. The whistleblower will receive $1.3 million in exchange for her efforts to bring the alleged fraud to light.

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