News Briefs: December 20, 2021

Correction: The Dec. 13 story on due diligence incorrectly stated that buyers should look at whether lease payments have been collected in a timely manner from referral sources.[1] The story should have referred to lease payments collected from tenants.

Professional Family Care Services Inc. (PFCS), a home health care company in Fayetteville, North Carolina, agreed to pay $45,486 to settle false claims allegations in connection with services performed by an employee who is a recently convicted felon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said Dec. 15.[2] PFCS billed the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015 and 2016 for services supposedly provided to an army veteran, W.R., who was living at the time with then-PFCS employee Tracey McNeill, a certified nurse aide. “The evidence showed that PFCS based its billing for those services on falsified timesheets provided by Ms. McNeill, who failed to provide both the time and quality of care required under the VA program,” the U.S. attorney’s office alleged. While he purportedly was getting home health care, W.R. had to be admitted to the hospital with serious bedsores; he was very malnourished and died a few days later. McNeill was convicted of wire fraud for her misconduct related to W.R. earlier in 2021. PFCS didn’t admit liability in the settlement.

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