South Haven Business Owner Sentenced To Over 5 Years In Prison For Healthcare Fraud

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Five years and three months in a federal prison will be served by Kenneth Nash of South Haven for healthcare fraud. His company, Universal Home Health Care, submitted claims for home health services totaling more than $750,000 when no physician had approved the services but, instead, employees forged physician signatures at Nash’s direction and with his knowledge. Nash pleaded guilty in October and was sentenced today (Wednesday) in Kalamazoo. He will have to pay over $755,000 in restitution. Nash closed the business and forfeited two Mercedes Benzes, a Land Rover, an Aston Martin, a Jaguar convertible, and a motorhome that had been purchased with proceeds from the fraud. In imposing a sentencing at the high end of the sentencing guidelines, Judge Maloney noted that Nash had a history of prior fraud convictions, that this offense involved a large loss to a government program, and that other health care providers needed to be deterred from defrauding Medicare.