Forefront Living Hospice Agreed to Pay $1.9 Million for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Submitting Claims for Services that Identified the Incorrect[...]

Forefront Living Hospice Agreed to Pay $1.9 Million for Allegedly Violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by Submitting Claims for Services that Identified the Incorrect Provider or Were Performed by Non-enrolled or Incorrect Providers

After it self-disclosed conduct to OIG, Forefront Living Hospice d/b/a Fatih Presbyterian Hospice and d/b/a T. Bonne Pickens Hospice and Palliative Care Center (Forefront), Dallas, Texas, agreed to Pay $1,959,718.74 for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. OIG alleged that Forefront billed for: (1) hospice services provided by "attending physicians" who were nurse practitioners, but billed as if they had been performed by physicians; and (2) "attending physician" services performed by an attending physician who was not the physician chosen by the patient or where the provider was not properly enrolled in Medicare.