An Oklahoma City-based home health company has agreed to pay $22.9 million to settle allegations the provider paid kickbacks to physicians for patient referrals and submitted false claims to Medicare and Tricare.
Carter Healthcare is accused of paying illegal kickbacks to physicians referrals for Medicare and Tricare home health patients in Oklahoma and Texas between 2013 and 2020, according to an Oct. 18 Justice Department news release. The company submitted claims to federal healthcare programs for the illegally referred patients.
As part of the settlement, Stanley Carter and Brad Carter — Carter Healthcare’s former CEO and COO, respectively — agreed to be excluded from participating in Medicare, Medicaid and all other federal healthcare programs for five years.