Gentiva made the financial news:
On or about June 19, 2014, the Company received a Civil Investigative Demand from the U.S. Department of Justice, Western District of Missouri, under the federal False Claims Act requesting complete medical records for 14 hospice patients and other documents of Hospice Care of the Midwest, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Harden Healthcare Holdings, LLC (“Harden Holdings”), for the period from January 1, 2009 through June 19, 2014. The Company is in the process of complying with the demand for documents and is cooperating with the investigation.What a difference ten days made in the telling of a prior story:
On or about June 9, 2014, Iowa Hospice, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Harden Holdings, received a Subpoena Duces Tecum (“Subpoena”) from the Office of Investigations, Kansas City Regional Office of the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Subpoena requests complete medical records for 17 hospice patients and other documents of Iowa Hospice, L.L.C. for the period from January 1, 2007 through June 9, 2014. Harden Holdings is in the process of complying with the Subpoena and is cooperating with the investigation.
I wasn't sure there were any Harden Hospices left, given Gentiva acquired 69 then closed 50. At least two remain and those are being investigated.
Anonymous (from Gentiva)
what a shock! you mean Gentiva bought a company that may have been doing questionable things, again? CIA comes to mind........
ReplyDeleteI believe this news is why the stock dropped roughly $1 a share earlier this week. It has since rebounded. This is another investigation not mentioned in this article.
ReplyDelete"On May 16, 2014, the Company received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch and the United States Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania notifying it of an investigation under the federal False Claims Act regarding Gentiva Health Services, Inc. and related entities. The letter requested various documents related to the Company’s home health business for the time period January 1, 2008 through May 16, 2014 including documents related to chart audits of Medicare claims. The Company is cooperating with the investigation and is continuing to produce documents in response to the letter request. Based on the limited information that the Company has at this time, the Company is unable to predict the financial impact, if any, arising from this investigation."
They can't blame this one on another company they purchased.
They're still around, at least in claims and paperwork. That doesn't go away, just because sites are "merged"
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