How might Rob Riley fit into this picture? An Associated Press report states that federal law-enforcement officials will start holding individual health-care executives accountable in fraud cases that used to be aimed at their companies. Regular readers know that Rob Riley is an owner of Performance Group LLC, a rehabilitation-medicine company that has engaged in rampant Medicare fraud, according to a federal whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2008.
Rob Riley's entry into the health-care field seems to coincide with his appearance in a federal lawsuit against individuals and entities connected to Birmingham-based HealthSouth. Riley joined the case to become co-liaison counsel with G. Douglas Jones, a former U.S. attorney in the Clinton administration. Here's how we reported it in an earlier post:
According to Sam Stein at Huffington Post, Rob Riley abruptly joined the HealthSouth lawsuit on January 13, 2005, representing the New Mexico State Investment Council.
Sources tell Legal Schnauzer that a few months after entering the HealthSouth case, Riley and two partners formed a company called Performance Group LLC.
Performance Group, our sources say, is a Birmingham-based corporation that provides physical-therapy services. The company has clinics in Birmingham, Cullman, and Albertville.
Performance Group apparently has plans to grow. Our sources say Riley and his partners sold ownership interests in the company to some 20 Alabama physicians who referred patients to the Performance Group entities for physical therapy.
This arrangement, in which physicians refer patients to an entity in which they have a "compensation relationship," appears to violate federal law, our sources tell us.
That's not the only way Riley and his partners seem to be skirting the law. They also are filing false claims for reimbursement with federal health-care programs, sources say.
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