Sanofi will pay up to $109 million to settle allegations that it gave healthcare providers free units of its knee injection drug Hyalgan to induce them to prescribe the drug, according to the Department...
Latest whistleblower lawsuit pricetag runs to $2.7 million
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James M. Berklan
Apr 01, 2013
Federal authorities cracked down on another regional long-term care provider recently, reaching a roughly $2.7 million settlement in a lawsuit centering on alleged false therapy billing.
HCP lied to investors about ManorCare’s performance, fraud, lawsuit claims
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Apr 14, 2017
HCP Inc. allegedly covered up ManorCare’s financial performance and fraud allegations when communicating with shareholders, according to a class action lawsuit filed on Monday.
Lawsuit claims Beverly defrauded federal programs
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Haymarket Media
Feb 18, 2005
A New Jersey doctor filed a lawsuit against BEI of Fort Smith, AR, claiming the company defrauded the government of more than $20 million a year since July 1998 from Medicare, Medicaid and other federal...
X-ray company owner gets 10 years in prison for nursing home resident’s death
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Phil Brahm
Jun 17, 2016
The owner of a mobile diagnostic imaging company has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for healthcare fraud that lead to the death of two patients.
Providers underreporting major injury falls on MDS, study suggests
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Danielle Brown
Jan 02, 2020
Falls data used by the Nursing Home Compare website “may be highly inaccurate,” says researchers whose new study suggests that providers could be underreporting major-injury falls.
Suit filed over false background checks
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Jun 05, 2017
An Indiana-based healthcare management group has been hit with a class-action lawsuit after one job applicant claimed she was denied a position at the company based on an allegedly false background check...
LTC operators paying higher liability costs since pandemic
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Danielle Brown
Nov 24, 2021
Long-term care operators should be wary of increased liability costs following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic after a new report found that industry is facing increasing loss costs — with the frequency...
HHS wants civil monetary penalty rules changed
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Elizabeth Newman
Feb 10, 2014
Civil monetary penalties for providers will be revised if two proposed rules from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General are approved.
Providers are not reporting all falls on the MDS: study
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Danielle Brown
Feb 02, 2020
A new study suggests that nursing home providers could be vastly underreporting major-injury falls in the Minimum Data Set, which the Nursing Home Compare website uses to report nursing home performance.