The former head of a Pittsburgh-area hospice has been indicted on charges she used patients who weren't terminally ill to collect millions of dollars in false Medicare and Medicaid billings.
Former Horizons Hospice chief operating officer Mary Ann Stewart was charged Thursday with health care fraud and lying to a federal grand jury.
Court records didn't list a lawyer to comment on Stewart's charges. The 47-year-old Bossier City, Louisiana woman is scheduled to appear in court March 19.
She's the second former official from Horizons' Monroeville location to face charges.
Oliver Herndon pleaded guilty in November to submitting claims while medical director for patients who weren't terminally ill or for services not provided.
He's serving more than 11 years in prison for writing phony painkiller prescriptions in an unrelated case.
