CEO of hospice ordered nurses to kill patients who wouldn't die fast enough
- 8 years ago
FRISCO, TEXAS — In a recent case of possible healthcare malpractice, a recent FBI probe found that a cruel hospice owner in Frisco, Texas tried to murder his patients as a cost-saving measure.
Brad Harris, an accountant and owner of Novus Health Services, Inc., reportedly directed nurses to execute patients at the health center by upping their medications — going as far to ask one nurse to up a poor patient's dosage by four times the maximum. The nurse said she would, but never did and told NBC 5 that doing so would have killed the patient.
According to what seems like a badly constructed policy, annual Medicare and Medicaid payments are subject to a cap based on the average length of stay. If patients stay over the average length of time, a health provider may have to pay back the government.
Harris allegedly wanted the patients to die as fast as possible in hopes of retaining more of the Medicare and Medicaid payments. Also, to take advantage of this policy, the heartless man tried to move dying patients back to home healthcare even if they needed continued hospice care, reported the New York Daily News.
The FBI apparently started investigating Novus in 2014 because the company billed the government for "unnecessary services" and recruited patients that didn't need hospice service. The FBI had no idea that they were also going to uncover a murderous CEO.
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Brad Harris, an accountant and owner of Novus Health Services, Inc., reportedly directed nurses to execute patients at the health center by upping their medications — going as far to ask one nurse to up a poor patient's dosage by four times the maximum. The nurse said she would, but never did and told NBC 5 that doing so would have killed the patient.
According to what seems like a badly constructed policy, annual Medicare and Medicaid payments are subject to a cap based on the average length of stay. If patients stay over the average length of time, a health provider may have to pay back the government.
Harris allegedly wanted the patients to die as fast as possible in hopes of retaining more of the Medicare and Medicaid payments. Also, to take advantage of this policy, the heartless man tried to move dying patients back to home healthcare even if they needed continued hospice care, reported the New York Daily News.
The FBI apparently started investigating Novus in 2014 because the company billed the government for "unnecessary services" and recruited patients that didn't need hospice service. The FBI had no idea that they were also going to uncover a murderous CEO.
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