The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) today released new visitation guidance to support long-term care facilities’ efforts to balance the need to protect residents from COVID-19 and ensure healthy social and emotional connections with family and friends during the ongoing pandemic.
An anesthesiologist at the center of the $200 million Forest Park Medical Center fraud has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $82.9 million in restitution.
A Kentucky doctor and his former office assistant pleaded guilty on Aug. 7 for their roles in unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances during a time when the defendants did not have a legitimate medical practice.
The Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company recently announced that it is starting a late-stage trial, involving 2,400 participants (residents and staff) in nursing homes, to study whether an experimental COVID-19 antibody treatment can prevent the virus’ spread in residents and staff.
For the first time in nearly five months, visitors will be allowed in Texas nursing homes on a limited basis, state health officials announced August 6, reversing a policy intended to keep the state’s most vulnerable populations safe from a pandemic that has proved especially deadly for older people.
Heather Nicole Gray, 33, the former bookkeeper for a Valdosta, Georgia physical therapy business, was ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to her former employer and was sentenced to 41 months in prison for bank fraud.
Partners Pharmacy of Virginia, LLC, located in Richmond, has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from alleged record-keeping violations as dictated by the Controlled Substances Act.
Milton Ayimadu has been arraigned on federal charges of hoarding and price gouging in violation of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA). Ayimadu was charged by a criminal information.
Failure by three nursing homes to provide an adequate level of care to residents during the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in the Massachusetts’ Medicaid program issuing termination notices.
A Springfield Medical Aesthetic P.C. d/b/a Advanced Cosmetic Surgery of New York, and Emmanuel O. Asare, M.D., a plastic surgery practice and surgeon in that practice, were found liable for discrimination on the basis of disability in violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act