An Oklahoma hospice provider lied about the amount of services it had provided and made patients appear sicker than they actually were as part of a scheme to defraud Medicare for three years.

Prairie View Hospice in Oklahoma City hid the true conditions of its patients in an attempt to “pass” a Medicare audit and siphon more money from the federal program, the Justice Department said.

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