The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois alleging that the owner of General Medicine, P.C. and his related corporate entities – that are based in Michigan and employ physicians and nurses to treat patients in nursing homes and assisted living facilities in multiple states – violated the False Claims Act (“FCA”) in a widespread healthcare fraud scheme, which resulted in more than $40 million of payments from Medicare to the Defendants since 2016.  DOJ’s complaint “alleges Defendants knowingly billed Medicare for visits with facility residents that were not medically necessary, did not meet the requirements of the billing codes, or were not performed at all.”

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