Healthcare Company VP Pleads Guilty to Making and Using Fake Physician Orders in Audit
Kala Sloan, 28, pleaded guilty to falsifying physician orders on behalf of a company that billed Medicare for millions of dollars. According to the criminal…
Minnesota Home Nurse Aide Charged for Exploiting Vulnerable Adult
A St. Charles woman is facing multiple charges related to the June 2022 financial exploitation of a man she was a home nurse aide for,…
Minnesota Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot up a Nursing Home
A 20-year-old Stewartville man is in custody after he allegedly threatened to shoot up his 19-year-old girlfriend’s workplace, according to Olmsted County Sheriff Capt. James…
Former Nurse Aide Sentenced for Assaulting Patient
A former nurse aide accused of assaulting a patient at a Pennsylvania skilled nursing facility was sentenced to two years’ probation on charges of simple…
OCR Settles Three Cases with Dental Practices for Patient Right of Access under HIPAA
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the resolution of three investigations concerning potential violations of the…
OIG Finds Certain Nursing Homes May Not Have Complied with Federal Requirements
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) analyzed State survey agency (SSA) data on Medicare.gov for the most recent standard surveys and the previous 12 months…
Louisiana Nursing Home Owners Seek Changes to Proposed Regulations from Hurricane Ida
Nursing home owners are pushing back on proposed changes to state regulations governing their emergency operations. Louisiana is expected to update its nursing home rules later…
NY Ambulance Service Suffers Healthcare Data Breach, 318K Impacted
Yonkers, New York-based Empress Emergency Medical Services (EMS) reported a breach to HHS that impacted 318,558 individuals.
Unneeded Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics May Harm Pneumonia Patients
An analysis of data on patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) found that extended-spectrum antibiotic therapy was associated with increased mortality compared with standard antibiotic…
Wireless ‘Smart Socks’ Alert Nurses, Reduce Hospital Falls to Zero in Ohio Hospital Study
Up to 1 million Americans across the country suffer falls while in hospitals, risking broken bones and head trauma, but an Ohio hospital reduced falls…