People with substance use disorder (SUD) make up an increasing proportion of patients hospitalized for infections that require outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT).
As nursing home settings and their residents were severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in care practices along with increased social isolation during the…
Delays in hospital discharge to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are widely viewed by hospital administrators and policymakers as a significant contributor to hospital crowding and…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a Mississippi Vietnam War veteran who challenged a ban on political slogans at a military retirement…
An Iowa nursing home worker has received a warning and been charged by the Iowa Board of Nursing for allegedly failing to intervene, assess, or…
A Maryland man is facing federal indictment stemming from an unauthorized computer access scheme involving a Maryland medical system. Matthew Bathula, 41, of Clarksville, is…
Modern Nuclear Inc. (MNI), a provider of mobile positron emission tomography (PET) scans headquartered in La Habra, California, has agreed to pay a total of…
Natasha Allmon, 49, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to serve 20 months in federal prison for healthcare fraud. According to public records, from January…
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced that her office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has filed criminal charges against Rebecca Walker and Douglaz Walker, who received…
A Coralville woman who initiated a bankruptcy case in order to defraud a nursing home out of more than $70,000 pled guilty on April 22,…