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Altranais Home Care, Lowell, MA, and its owners, Constant Ogutt and Shakira Lubega, will pay $3.1 million to resolve allegations that they knowingly, or with reckless disregard of billing requirements, submitted false claims to MassHealth and MassHealth Managed Care Entities for home health services that had not been appropriately authorized by a physician, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Friday.

To bill MassHealth for home health services requires that a member’s physician review and sign a plan of care certifying that home health services are medically necessary. Moreover, home health agencies must maintain such records for a minimum of six years after services are provided and claims are presented for payment. Healey’s office alleges that Altranais billed for services for which the company did not have valid, signed plans of care.

In addition to the financial settlement, the company must operate under a multi-year independent compliance program.Altranais had not responded to a request for comment from the McKnight’s Home Care Daily by the production deadline.