{"id":559,"date":"2015-08-17T08:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=559"},"modified":"2015-08-17T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:52:33","slug":"feds-name-life-care-centers-ceo-in-false-claims-act-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Feds name Life Care Centers CEO in False Claims Act suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Emily Mongan,\u00a0www.mcknights.com)<\/p>\n<p>Life Care Centers founder and CEO Forrest Preston has been named by federal prosecutors in an amended False Claims Act lawsuit against the company, claiming he benefitted from alleged Medicare overbilling.\u00a0Prosecutors added a count of \u201cunjust enrichment\u201d against Preston, saying that he profited from the alleged Medicare fraud at the core of two whistleblower suits filed against the company in 2008. The suits weren&#8217;t made public until late 2012. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcknights.com\/news\/feds-name-life-care-centers-ceo-in-false-claims-act-suit\/article\/432912\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice: The \u201cRead more\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Emily Mongan,\u00a0www.mcknights.com) Life Care Centers founder and CEO Forrest Preston has been named by federal prosecutors in an amended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}