{"id":54730,"date":"2023-11-15T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=54730"},"modified":"2023-11-15T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:23:47","slug":"calif-nursing-facilities-owner-and-management-co-agree-to-pay-45-6-million-to-settle-allegations-of-kickbacks-to-referring-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=54730","title":{"rendered":"Calif. Nursing Facilities Owner and Management Co. Agree to Pay $45.6 Million to Settle Allegations of Kickbacks to Referring Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5061 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Department-of-Health-and-Human-Services-Inspector-General.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Department-of-Health-and-Human-Services-Inspector-General.jpg 298w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Department-of-Health-and-Human-Services-Inspector-General-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>Officials announced Wednesday that Prema Thekkek, her Vacaville-based management company, Paksn Inc., and six skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) owned by Thekkek and operated by Paksn agreed to enter into a $45.6 million consent judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">This settlement is to resolve allegations that they submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare by paying kickbacks to physicians to induce patient referrals, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The six settling SNFs are Kayal Inc. (doing business as Bay Point Healthcare Center), Nadhi Inc. (doing business as Gateway Care &amp; Rehabilitation Center), Oakrheem Inc. (doing business as Hayward Convalescent Hospital), Bayview Care Inc. (doing business as Hilltop Care and Rehabilitation Center), Aakash Inc. (doing business as Park Central Care &amp; Rehabilitation Center) and Nasaky Inc. (doing business as Yuba Skilled Nursing Center) (collectively the SNF Defendants).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The claims resolved by this settlement are allegations only. There has been no determination of liability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3918 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits offering or paying remuneration to induce the referral of items or services covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and other federally funded health care programs, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It is intended to ensure that medical decision-making is based on patients&#8217; best interests and not compromised by improper financial incentives to providers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">From 2009 to 2021, court documents indicate that the SNF defendants, under the direction and control of Thekkek and Paksn, systematically entered into medical directorship agreements with physicians that purported to provide compensation for administrative services but, in reality, were vehicles for the payment of kickbacks to induce the physicians to refer patients to the six SNFs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Specifically, the defendants hired physicians who promised in advance to refer a large number of patients to the SNFs, paid physicians in proportion to the number of their expected referrals, and terminated physicians who did not refer enough patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">On one occasion, a Paksn employee told Thekkek that two physicians were being hired because \u201cthey are promising at least ten patients for $2000 per month,\u201d to which Thekkek responded, \u201cGood job. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Make sure they give you patients every day. [W]e can also expand to other buildings with them, if possible.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">On another occasion, an employee informed Thekkek that the defendants previously had paid a certain doctor \u201c$1500 each month and he only send [sic] us 2 patients[,] so we didn\u2019t pay him anything from Jan[uary] onwards.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">On a third occasion, Thekkek rejected a proposed stipend for a new medical director, explaining that the defendants had paid the previous medical director that amount because \u201cwe were getting admission[s] from him,\u201d whereas she did not expect the new medical director to refer many patients. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">More generally, Thekkek complained that if her employees did not pay medical directors promptly every month, \u201c[t]hese doctors will not give us patients.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cKickbacks can impair the independence of physician decision-making and waste taxpayer dollars,\u201d said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton, head of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division. \u201cThe department is committed to preventing illegal financial relationships that undermine the integrity of our public health care programs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cKickbacks impose hidden costs on the health care system and compromise medical decision-making,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge Timothy B. DeFrancesca of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG). \u201cWorking tirelessly with our law enforcement partners, HHS-OIG will continue to combat the waste of valuable taxpayer dollars and protect the integrity of federal health care programs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Under the settlement announced today, in addition to entering into a $45.6 million consent judgment,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The defendants will make scheduled payments to the United States of at least $385,000 over the next five years. That payment schedule was negotiated based on the defendants\u2019 lack of ability to pay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The settlement stems from a whistleblower complaint filed in 2015 by Paksn\u2019s former Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Trilochan Singh, under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, which permit private persons to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the government and to share in the proceeds of the suit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Act also permits the government to intervene and take over the lawsuit, as it did in this case as to some of Singh\u2019s allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">In addition to resolving their False Claims Act liability, the defendants have entered into a five-year corporate integrity agreement with the HHS-OIG.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> It requires an Independent Review Organization\u2019s review of their physician relationships, among other compliance obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The United States\u2019 intervention and settlement in this matter illustrate the government\u2019s emphasis on combating health care fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">One of the most powerful tools in this effort is the False Claims Act. Tips and complaints from all sources about potential fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement can be reported to HHS, at 800 HHS TIPS (800-447-8477).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General investigated the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9350032307MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The case is captioned\u00a0<i>United States of America ex rel. Trilochan Singh v. Paksn Inc. et al.<\/i>, No. 15 cv-09064 (C.D. 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