CareOne, HealthBridge ordered to pay 12 years’ back wages to striking workers they replaced
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Kimberly Marselas
May 31, 2024
The owner and manager of six Connecticut nursing homes must pay up to 700 former employees replaced during a 2012 strike for up to 12 years of back pay, a federal judge ruled this week.
Health system shuts door on case affirming right to spend nursing home pay on other service lines
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Kimberly Marselas
May 23, 2024
A health system has resolved the final allegation in a 12-year-old False Claims case over how it spent its nursing home proceeds, months after a federal appeals court ordered the case dismissed.
Judge clears way for new Petersen Health financing as bankruptcy advances
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Kimberly Marselas
Josh Henreckson
May 16, 2024
Petersen Health Care can borrow $45 million while in Chapter 11 bankruptcy to maintain operations at its nursing homes and make the properties more appealing to potential buyers, a federal bankruptcy judge...
Industry and legal experts are expressing confidence in a lawsuit filed last week that aims to kill a federal nursing home staffing mandate, with some boldly predicting a fairly straight-forward defeat...
BREAKING: AHCA files lawsuit to dismiss nursing home staffing rule
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Kimberly Marselas
May 24, 2024
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to throw out the national nursing home staffing mandate, charging that it exceeds the authority of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and that it “creates...
‘Whistleblower’ owes landmark $1.1M to nursing home for groundless False Claims case
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 20, 2024
A judge has awarded a landmark $1.1 million in attorney fees to a nursing home targeted in a False Claims case found “frivolous” for its reliance on publicly available and false information.
Genesis evades insurance shakedown over COVID cases thanks to federal ruling
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 20, 2023
A federal appeals court has overturned a decision that could have cost skilled nursing provider Genesis Healthcare millions of dollars in COVID-19 claims not covered by its insurer.
The RAC is back, increasing scrutiny in a complex nursing home audit environment
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 05, 2024
Audits of skilled nursing providers are likely to increase this year, with a growing number of federal and state recovery audits adding to specialized compliance reviews announced last year.
LeadingAge’s Sloan to Biden: Let’s talk so nursing homes don’t ‘shoulder entire burden’ on...
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 18, 2023
The leader of the nation’s second-largest nursing home advocacy group on Thursday asked the White House to convene a roundtable on improving job quality and expanding the worker pool in conjunction with...
AI-shortened nursing home stays drive potential class action suit against insurer
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 16, 2023
The nation’s largest insurer is illegally using programs driven by artificial intelligence to override the decisions of medical professionals and wrongfully force seniors from nursing homes, a potential...