A former home healthcare company in Maryland must pay the federal government $1.98 million for allegedly falsifying records to inflate Medicaid reimbursement.
A federal judge ruled in favor of the U.S. and against Dynamic Visions. Dynamic Visions was based in Bowie, Md., and operated in the District of Columbia.
During an audit in the fall of 2008, the District of Columbia's Department of Health Care Finance uncovered discrepancies in Dynamic Visions' records. Federal investigators launched an investigation. They discovered Dynamic Visions' patient records lacked required physician authorizations and signatures, or contained forged signatures.
Following the investigation, the U.S. filed a False Claims lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2011. The lawsuit alleged a "massive and routine pattern of fraud" performed from January 2006 through June 2009 by Dynamic Visions employees.
On Oct. 20, 2017, a federal judge awarded the U.S. $1.98 million in the case.
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