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Nursing home CEO convicted of Medicare fraud
LTC Liability Monitor, April 22, 2004
A San Francisco judge this week sentenced a nursing home chief executive officer (CEO) to six and one-half years in federal prison for seeking nearly $3 million in false Medicare reimbursements, the [Hayward, CA] Daily Review reported.
St. Luke's Subacute Hospital and Nursing Center in San Leandro, CA, and its President/CEO Guy Roland Seaton were ordered to pay restitution-to be determined by CMS-for submitting inflated nursing costs to Medicare and falsifying nursing schedules to account for the phony costs.
Both Seaton and the facility were convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud, three counts of submitting false claims to Medicare, one count of submitting false statements to Medicare auditors, and one count of obstructing a federal audit, the Daily Review reported.
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