Home health agency, executives to pay over $5M to settle fraud allegations

Sarasota-based Doctor’s Choice has branches throughout the state.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:01 p.m. November 24, 2020
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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SARASOTA — Doctor’s Choice Home Care Inc. and its former executives, Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen, have agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve allegations that the home health agency provided improper financial inducements to referring physicians through sham medical director agreements and bonuses to physicians’ spouses who were Doctor’s Choice employees.

 

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