Texas home healthcare employee to pay $200K for kickbacks 

A home healthcare worker based in San Antonio was sentenced to 10 years of probation and fined $200,000 for her role in a healthcare kickback scheme. 

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From June 2014 to April 2019, Amber Ashley Price was involved with a conspiracy to pay and receive kickbacks for sending prescriptions to specific pharmacies, according to a Nov. 7 news release from the Justice Department. 

Ms. Price, an employee of Kindred Home Health, would also refer patients to other home health agencies for kickback payments.

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