Suzanne C. May, age 61, of Mandeville was charged October 22, 2019 by a Bill of Information with conspiracy to alter or falsify records in connection with a federal investigation, namely, a Medicare audit of a hospice facility located in New Orleans, identified in court documents as Company 1. According to court documents, May was a registered nurse in the State of Louisiana and served as the administrator of Company 1. According to court documents, between August 2017 and October 2017, May and other employees of Company 1, altered, amended, and falsified patient records to hide the fact that Company 1 lacked required medical records to justify bills submitted to Medicare for purported hospice services for the beneficiaries at issue in the audit. Court documents detail an instance where May placed whiteout on one patient record and created a note on that record indicating that she treated that patient as a nurse in November 2014, when she had not done so. May caused all these falsified patient records to be submitted to Medicare in response to the August 2017 audit so that Company 1 would pass the Medicare audit. Despite the falsifications, Medicare still determined that Company 1’s patient records were still largely deficient.
