Springhill Care Group: South Jersey Doctor Admits Making Halfa-Million Dollars in Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health
Care for Elderly Patients
The owner, founder and physician of Visiting Physicians of South Jersey—a Hammonton, New Jersey
provider of...
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Springhill Care Group: South Jersey Doctor Admits Making Halfa-Million Dollars in Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health
Care for Elderly Patients
The owner, founder and physician of Visiting Physicians of South Jersey—a Hammonton, New Jersey
provider of home-based physician services for seniors—pleaded guilty today for charging lengthy visits
to elderly patients that they did not receive, U.
S.
Attorney Paul J.
Fish-man announced.
52 year-old Lori Reaves of Waterford Works, New Jersey, entered her guilty plea to information charging
her with one count of health care fraud before U.
S.
District Judge Freda L.
Wolfson in Trenton federal
court.
Reaves was led to her receiving at least $511,068 in criminal profits because at some stage in her
guilty plea she confessed about lying in Medicare billings about the amount of face-to-face time she
spent with patients.
According to court documents, the physician was the highest-billing home care
provider among the more than 24,000 doctors in
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