‘Continued chaos’ after SCOTUS declines to hear nursing home-related case, expert says
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James M. Berklan
Oct 18, 2022
either healthcare defendants nor the plaintiffs’ bar fully received what they wanted Monday, when the Supreme Court declined to consider petitions for three cases that could have led to stricter standards...
Health Concepts, COO to settle false claims allegations for $2.2 million
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Sep 30, 2016
Rhode Island-based skilled nursing provider Health Concepts Ltd., along with the company’s chief operating officer, have agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle allegations that the company inflated...
HealthEssentials CEO agrees to $1 million settlement in False Claims suit
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Tim Mullaney
Jan 14, 2014
Michael Barr, who co-founded the company now known as Kindred Healthcare, has agreed to pay $1 million in a settlement over Medicare fraud charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.
Lab owner bilked Medicare of $7 million in nursing home COVID scheme, feds say
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Kimberly Marselas
Jul 21, 2023
A laboratory owner preyed on nursing home clients to bilk Medicare out of at least $7 million in claims for early COVID-era tests that were unnecessary and, in some cases, never performed, the government...
Whistleblowers add to nursing home COVID relief burdens
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 31, 2022
A $105 million federal lawsuit filed last week — one possibly on its way to a quick dismissal — shows the growing threats nursing home operators face in accounting for their right to collect and spend...
Consulate Health Care could pay just $4.5 million after reduced $258 million judgment in therapy upcoding...
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Danielle Brown
Sep 15, 2021
Florida-based nursing home chain Consulate Health Care has reached a tentative settlement with the Department of Justice after six of its affiliated nursing homes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following...
Ask the legal expert: applying the False Claims Act to nursing homes and senior housing
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John Durso
Mar 01, 2009
John Durso, Esq. Ungaretti & Harris LLP
Signature HealthCARE to pay $30 million to resolve false claims allegations
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 11, 2018
Signature HealthCARE, the owner of 115 skilled nursing facilities, has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve allegations that it routinely placed residents at higher therapy levels to increase claims.
Also in the News for Wednesday, May 10
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Kimberly Marselas
May 10, 2023
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc. plans to sell its final skilled nursing assets … Nursing home wound care consultant settles False Claims case … New GAO report adds to criticism of costly, trouble-plagued...
Hospitalist company with long-term care presence faces federal charges of upcoding
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Tim Mullaney
Jun 18, 2014
A hospitalist company that works with thousands of post-acute care facilities is officially facing federal charges that its clinicians routinely overbilled Medicare and Medicaid, authorities announced...