Five nursing home operators, hospice and home-health agencies have been charged in the Justice Department’s 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown investigation, which identified more than $14.6 billion in intended losses to Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs.
The Justice Department provided details on the individual cases against all 324 defendants on its website.
Here are five nursing home operators, hospice and home-health agencies included in the investigation:
- New York City-based Centers Health Care will pay $6,063,500 to the U.S. government to settle claims that 44 of the system’s skilled nursing facilities in New York, Rhode Island, Kansas and Missouri submitted cost reports with “one or more false statements or material omissions” regarding transactions with organizations related to the system through common ownership or control.
- Six Villa Healthcare nursing homes in Michigan will pay $4,500,000 to the U.S. government and the state of Michigan to settle a lawsuit alleging the facilities failed to provide or provided “materially and grossly substandard” servings to nursing home residents. Villa Healthcare is based in Lincolnwood, Ill.
- Individuals associated with Laguna Hills, Calif-based Careplus Hospice were charged with facilitating a $2.7 million hospice fraud scheme in which they allegedly billed false Medicaid and Medicare claims for patients who were not terminally ill and did not qualify for hospice services.
- Individuals associated with Arizona-based companies Apex Mobile Medical, Apex Medical, Viking Medical Consultants, and APX Mobile Medical were charged in connection to a $1 billion amniotic wound allograft fraud scheme, transactional money laundering and health care kickbacks. The defendants allegedly targeted older adult Medicare patients to administer allograft treatments when not medically necessary and without coordination with the patient’s physicians. The alleged scheme resulted in the submission of more than $1 billion in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare, the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Tricare and commercial insurers over 14 months, of which $600 million was paid.
- Individuals associated with the Richmond, Texas-based United Palliative & Hospice Company, Residential and Cedar Hospices were charged in connection to a $110 million healthcare fraud and kickbacks scheme. The defendants allegedly enrolled Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in hospice services, though the beneficiaries and their families believed they were receiving palliative or home health services. The resulting claims totaled about $87 million in Medicare and Medicaid payments.
Read the full case summaries here.
