Civil settlement
Saad Healthcare to pay $3 million in hospice settlement
The Justice Department said Saad will pay $3 million and that two former employees will receive $540,000. The release says the claims are allegations only.
On February 21, 2025, the Office of Public Affairs said Saad Enterprises Inc., doing business as Saad Healthcare, agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare for hospice patients in Alabama who were not terminally ill. The release says the allegations cover 21 patients and the years 2013 through 2020. 1 Source 1
The release says Medicare hospice eligibility requires a life expectancy of six months or less if the illness runs its normal course. It says the settlement resolved a qui tam filed by former employees Melissa Wolff and Whitney Sims, captioned United States ex rel. Wolff & Sims v. Saad Enterprises, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-00040 (S.D. Ala.). It says they will receive $540,000. It says the claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only. 1 Source 1
Sources
- Saad Healthcare Agrees to Pay $3M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations, February 21, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice