A Fairfax City-based nursing home agreed to settle and pay $700,000 on Feb. 13 in a nearly two-year lawsuit that accused the nursing treatment center of claiming Medicare for unnecessary rehabilitation therapy services.
Former employees of the Fairfax Nursing Center(FNC) filed the suit in May 2011, alleging the nursing center gave “excessive, medically unnecessary, or otherwise non-reimbursable physical, occupational, and speech therapy services” to 37 Medicare beneficiaries who were customers of FNC, according to the Department of Justice.
I see you’re still keeping up with Fairfax news even from all the way over there.
I wrote it before I left. 🙂