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Company: Encompass Health Corporation
Current Parent Company: Encompass Health
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Penalty: $48,000,000
Year: 2019
Date: June 28, 2019
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Mega-Scandal: Healthcare Billing Abuses
Violation Description: Encompass Health Corporation (formerly known as HealthSouth Corporation), the nation's largest operator of inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), agreed to pay $48 million to resolve allegations that some of its IRFs provided inaccurate information to Medicare to maintain their status as an IRF and to earn a higher rate of reimbursement, and that some admissions to its IRFs were not medically necessary.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Middle District of Florida
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Alabama
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.