Ex-hospice head pleads guilty to Medicare, Medicaid fraud

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A former head of a suburban hospice who was accused of using patients who weren't terminally ill to collect millions of dollars in false Medicare and Medicaid billings pleaded guilty on Thursday to a health care fraud charge.

Former Horizons Hospice chief operating officer Mary Ann Stewart was indicted last year on one count of health care fraud and four counts of lying to a federal grand jury.

Ex-hospice head pleads guilty to Medicare, Medicaid fraud