- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Adrianne Appel2023-11-16T19:53:00
A nursing home chain and its owner agreed to pay $45.6 million in entering a consent judgment with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations employees paid kickbacks to doctors who brought patients to them.
Prema Thekkek and the six skilled nursing homes she owned through her company, Paksn, submitted false claims to Medicare, the DOJ alleged in a settlement agreement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Thekkek and her facilities violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act, the DOJ said.
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