CMS nominee Verma grilled on fraud, fee-for-service at confirmation hearing
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Feb 17, 2017
Seema Verma, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, told lawmakers on Thursday that she’d make targeting healthcare fraud and abuse a “top...
LPN arrested for falsifying test records about resident’s fall death
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May 17, 2016
A former licensed practical nurse at a Louisiana veterans nursing home was arrested Monday on charges that she falsified records about a resident’s death following a fall.
Do it for your herd
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Nov 03, 2015
How do you convince some 50,000 plus college students, faculty and staff to get a flu shot? If you’re the university I attended, you hand out stickers with a catchy slogan and a cartoon cow on them.
VA to propose easier funding access for rural nursing homes
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Aug 23, 2017
Rural veterans may soon have easier access to long-term care under a future proposal being considered by Veterans Affairs officials.
Government shutdown won’t affect ICD-10 transition, CMS says
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Sep 28, 2015
A possible government shutdown won’t affect the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans for the October 1 transition to ICD-10, the agency said last week.
SNF owner embezzled Medicaid funds to pay for strippers, gambling, pet care
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Apr 21, 2017
The owner of a shuttered nursing home in Missouri admitted in court on Wednesday that he took $667,000 in Medicaid funds meant for the facility and spent it on strippers, pet care, gambling and a country...
Former SNF workers charged with neglect after resident bitten by ants
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Feb 28, 2017
Three former members of the nursing staff at an Alabama skilled nursing facility were indicted last week on charges that their neglect of a resident contributed to her sustaining nearly 100 ant bites.
Court upholds $84,000 fine for SNF that failed to report, investigate abuse
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Feb 08, 2016
Fines imposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid on a skilled nursing facility that failed to report alleged abuse and neglect was “reasonable,” a federal court ruled last week.
Active-shooter tips from a survivor — how to respond ‘when seconds count’
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Jul 25, 2017
Betty Brunner was sitting down to an appointment at her hair stylist one morning and the next thing she knew, she was diving for the floor, trying to avoid a crazed gunman. Brunner miraculously escaped...
Time for some Halloween magic — senior style
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Oct 26, 2017
It’s recently come to my attention that some people haven’t seen the greatest Halloween movie of all time. No, it’s not a slasher flick or anything that relies too heavily on jump scares....