Complaint alleges area home health agency engaged in fraud

Doctor’s Choice is a home health agency based in Sarasota.

By Business Observer Staff
| 4:45 p.m. May 24, 2019
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Manatee-Sarasota

SARASOTA – The U.S. has filed a complaint in intervention against Doctor’s Choice Home Care Inc. and partial owners Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen.

The complaint alleges False Claims Act violations arising from the alleged payment of kickbacks in the form of sham medical director agreements and payments to the spouses of referring physicians, the Department of Justice announced in a press release.