Fraudulent Financial Accounting Practices Sample Clauses

Fraudulent Financial Accounting Practices. The United States alleges that HealthSouth engaged in a number of fraudulent financial accounting practices, some of which, as specified below, resulted in claims on cost reports, cost statements, and other requests for federal payment, or payments made with respect thereto, to which HealthSouth was not entitled. Specifically, the United States alleges that the conduct described in Subparagraphs (a) (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of this Article II, Paragraph G(4) resulted from HealthSouth’s fraudulent financial accounting practices, and caused claims to be submitted to Medicare on cost reports, cost statements and otherwise which resulted in HealthSouth receiving payments to which it was not entitled.
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Fraudulent Financial Accounting Practices. The United States alleges that HealthSouth engaged in a number of fraudulent financial accounting practices, some of which, as specified below, resulted in claims on cost reports, cost statements, and other requests for federal payment, or payments made with respect thereto, to which HealthSouth was not entitled. Specifically, the United States alleges that the conduct described in Subparagraphs (a) (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of this Article II, Paragraph G(4) resulted from HealthSouth's fraudulent financial accounting practices, and caused claims to be submitted to Medicare on cost reports, cost statements and otherwise which resulted in HealthSouth receiving payments to which it was not entitled. (1) Bonuses. HealthSouth paid bonuses to executives, corporate employees, facility administrators and other management personnel based in part on HealthSouth's achieving specific financial objectives. Between 1995 and 2002, the financial objectives which triggered the bonuses were met and the bonuses paid because of HealthSouth's fraudulent financial accounting practices. Nineteen of the corporate executives who received bonus payments between 1995 and 2001 have since pled guilty to criminal charges arising from their roles in the fraudulent financial accounting practiced by HealthSouth. Richard Scrushy, HealthSouth's former CEO, who received over $50 xxxxxxx xx xxxxses from 1995-2001 and directed the payment of bonuses to others, has been indicted for his role in the accounting fraud. In its Medicare Home Office Cost Statements for cost report periods ending between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2001, from which costs are allocated to individual provider Medicare cost reports, HealthSouth improperly claimed portions of the bonuses paid to Mr. Scrushy, executives who pled guilty, other corporate employees, facility administrators and other management personnel despite the fact that these bonuses had been earned as a result of HealthSouth's fraudulent financial accounting practices.

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