The perpetrators of a $900 million healthcare scam targeted nursing homes and other facilities where seniors lived, looking for Medicare patients whom they could dupe into receiving expensive wound care...
Judge rejects plea deal for former Skyline nursing home owner Schwartz
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Kimberly Marselas
May 24, 2024
A federal judge has rejected the plea deal for a former nursing home operator who admitted his role in a nearly $39 million fraud scheme that led to the financial collapse of dozens of facilities.
Antihypertensives linked to eczema in older adults, trial finds
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Kristen Fischer
May 28, 2024
Antihypertensive medications, which are used to treat high blood pressure, are associated with an increased risk for eczema in older adults, a new study finds. The effects were biggest among people who...
Head of collapsed Skyline empire gets another reprieve in federal court
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Jessica R. Towhey
Nov 07, 2023
The owner of a fast-rising and even faster-falling nursing home empire has been granted a temporary reprieve in federal court.
Disgraced nursing home operator Schwartz hit with new $7.7 million ruling
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 30, 2022
A disgraced nursing home owner must pay $7.7 million to a medical supply company, one of many debtors he owed after the collapse of Skyline Healthcare.
Owner of defunct Skyline chain pleads guilty in $39M fraud case
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 18, 2024
Joseph Schwartz, former owner of Skyline Management and a 90-plus nursing home empire whose collapse sent patients and workers scrambling in 2019, pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in a $39 million...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2024
Plea deal may net Schwartz 1 year in prison, $5 million in restitution for Skyline fraud … North Carolina to close highly rated state vets home over costly repair needs … Bill would double the time...
Owner of collapsed Skyline chain close to plea agreement with federal prosecutors: report
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Jessica R. Towhey
Feb 22, 2023
The former head of a nursing home empire that grew quickly and crumbled even more quickly is close to reaching a plea deal with federal prosecutors that would cover all pending criminal charges.
NY nursing home landlord, former operators to pay $7.2M in False Claims settlement
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 28, 2023
The landlord of an upstate New York nursing home and the unlicensed operators who ran the facility for years before its 2021 closure have agreed to pay nearly $7.2 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations.
Notoriously troubled NJ skilled nursing facility to close Monday
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John Hall
Aug 04, 2022
Years of shocking news from a New Jersey nursing home that included residents’ bodies stored in on-site morgues, tax woes of a troubled owner and disturbing allegations of resident abuse have culminated...