A federal grand jury in Nashville returned a 40-count second superseding indictment, charging eight people in a Medicare and Medicaid fraud conspiracy which targeted nursing…
A lawsuit has been filed against an assisted living facility in Illinois after an 82-year-old man with dementia went missing from the facility and drowned.…
An Illinois nursing home was named in a lawsuit alleging the staff’s negligence resulted in a resident’s fall. The plaintiff, acting as independent administrator of…
Two Texas men have been charged with conspiracy to commit and committing wire fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic involving medical-grade nitrile gloves. The two men…
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the indictment of a physician and his company for defrauding Medicaid by forcing patients to get unnecessary and…
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit and found that selected nursing homes may not have complied with federal requirements for infection prevention…
A Pennsylvania nursing home will pay $819,640 to settle claims that it provided medically unnecessary rehabilitation therapy to residents to maximize revenue, and without prioritizing…
The Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA) reported that an Iowa nursing home would be fined $20,000 after a resident was inappropriately discharged and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its enhanced Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System which integrates data nursing homes report on their weekend…
A former registered nurse who worked in the emergency department of a Virginia hospital pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances, fentanyl, and hydromorphone, by fraud.…