Beginning with the 2022–2023 influenza season, skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are required to submit data for the entire influenza vaccination season (October 1 through March…
Two Houston area residents have been ordered to federal prison after admitting to paying kickbacks to marketers and a physician. Joseph Nwankwo, 59, Houston, and…
Two nurses have been charged after the death of a resident at Spring Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in partnership with the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of…
An especially important setting for surveillance testing is skilled nursing facilities, whose residents and staff made up less than 2% of the US population but…
Imagine a nursing home resident with dementia falls and needs surgery, but there is no one to approve the care plan or foot the resulting…
Attorney General Josh Stein announced that Lakia Lateefah Washington of Clayton pleaded guilty to defrauding the North Carolina Medicaid program of more than $800,000. She…
An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Medicaid Fraud Control Division has resulted in the indictment and arrest of a Memphis…
The US Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit March 20, 2023, in US District Court for the District of New Jersey, which charged a nursing home…
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in partnership with the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of…