Prosecutors say the Van Nuys healthcare businessman controlled four Southern California hospice companies that billed Medicare for medically unnecessary, ineligible, improperly represented, or allegedly nonexistent care involving living and deceased beneficiaries
WASHINGTON, DC — Los Angeles hospice owner Oren David Shachar is accused of directing a four-company operation that submitted approximately $27.731 million in Medicare claims for care that prosecutors contend was medically unnecessary, ineligible for reimbursement, improperly represented, or procured through illegal payments.
Medicare allegedly paid approximately $26.908 million to the businesses, leaving federal prosecutors to prove that Shachar knowingly transformed separate hospice providers into a coordinated billing network rather than merely owning companies where independent clinicians, marketers, administrators, or contractors made disputed decisions…