Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit played a pivotal role in an investigation leading to the successful federal prosecution of nine pharmaceutical distributor…
Daniel Ramiro Canchola, 54, of Flower Mound, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison and ordered to pay more than…
Kevin Karl Wills, Jr. (48, Ft. Lauderdale) pleaded guilty to conspiring to receive kickbacks in return for the referral of Medicare beneficiaries for the provision…
Governing Body Personal Exposure By: David Barmak, JD CEO What is my personal exposure when serving on a nursing home’s Governing Body? An excellent question!…
On November 19, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a $100,000 civil monetary penalty against…
A Charlotte behavioral health services provider was sentenced to 135 months in prison for Medicaid fraud, COVID-19 fraud, and money laundering. Ashley Nicole Cross, 42,…
A former nursing home employee has been charged with several felonies months after a disturbing video of him attempting to steal from one of the…
An analysis of US long-term care (LTC) pharmacy dispensing data shows overall antibiotic prescribing rates in nursing homes fell from 2013 to 2021, researchers reported…
A Michigan woman was convicted for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and receive illegal healthcare kickbacks. According to court documents…
Two recent investigations in Minnesota have revealed incidents of nursing home abuse involving social media. In both cases, employees were found to have recorded and…