Medicaid Fraud Indictment Alleges False Claims for Caregiver Services
United States Attorney Mark A. Klaassen announced that Holly Lundahl, age 63, was arrested on April 6, 2020 in Rapid City, South Dakota following an…
Contract Rehab Provider to Pay $4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to the Provision of Medically Unnecessary Rehabilitation Therapy Services
Encore Rehabilitation Services LLC (Encore) has agreed to pay $4.03 million to resolve allegations that Encore violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing three…
Texas Nursing Home Residents with COVID-19 Treated with Hydroxychloroquine Drug
After testing positive for COVID-19, twenty-seven residents in a Texas nursing home are being treated with hydroxychloroquine-a drug used to treat malaria, lupus, and other…
Nurses Were Promised $10K a Week to Serve in NY Hospitals. They Say It Was a “Classic Bait and Switch.”
Three nurses allege in a new lawsuit that a Kansas-based recruiting company misled and defrauded them when it deployed them to the front lines of…
Death Stalks French Nursing Home, Where Corpses Lie in Rooms
In a nursing home in Paris, bodies have been left decomposing in bedrooms and the smell of death seeps under doors after the coronavirus spread…
Kentucky Woman Too Sick for Nursing Home, Not Sick Enough for Hospital Dies of COVID-19
Sitting in a Tennessee hotel room last week, with a mask over her face and her dying grandmother sleeping nearby, Lee Anne Teague could hardly…
CDC Update Social Media Toolkit
CDC created this social media toolkit to help localize efforts in responding to COVID-19. This toolkit provides messages and graphics to help: Ensure current, correct…
EEOC Issues Updated Covid-19 Technical Assistance Publication
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) posted an updated and expanded technical assistance publication addressing questions arising under the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws…
Harlem Nursing Home Let 92-Year-Old Grandmother’s Body Decay in Storage Room for Five Days: Suit
An elderly woman’s body decomposed for five days in the storage closet of a Harlem nursing home that couldn’t be bothered to call a morgue,…
Utah Nursing Home Turned into Dedicated COVID-19 Facility by DPH
After six residents and two staff members at a Utah nursing home tested positive for COVID-19, the Utah Department of Health (DPH) took over management…