Criminal recoveries for Medicaid fraud in assisted living top $1 million again due to case discovered...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 08, 2021
Fallout from a Medicaid fraud case discovered because of a murder at an assisted living community had an outsized effect on fraud-related criminal monetary recoveries by state Medicaid Fraud Control Units...
$60 million Medicare fraud scheme involved assisted living communities, federal officials allege
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 01, 2017
Assisted living communities were provided remuneration, including certified nursing assistants to staff their facilities, for their participation in a $60 million Medicare fraud scheme for which 16 individuals...
Assisted living owner, three managers charged with defrauding Medicaid of more than $1 million
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 12, 2017
The owner and three managers of an Alaska assisted living home have been indicted after the home allegedly billed the state for more than $1 million in home- and community-based services that were not...
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Feb 07, 2018
HHS considers lifetime limits on Medicaid … Kindred Healthcare urges shareholders to approve its sale, notes more challenges ahead … New rules aiming to prevent financial abuse of seniors take...
State employee allegedly accepted bribes from ALFs in $1 billion fraud scheme
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 31, 2017
An employee of the agency that oversees the licensure of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities in Florida accepted bribes from facility owners, including one charged in a historic $1 billion healthcare...
Assisted living doctors agree to pay $4 million in False Claims Act settlement
By
Lois A. Bowers
Aug 31, 2018
A Tampa, FL, dermatology practice that provides on-site care for assisted living residents has agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to obtain Medicare and Medicaid...
Assisted living operator involved in record-breaking $1.3 billion healthcare fraud takedown
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 13, 2017
A Florida home health agency paid kickbacks to the owner of three assisted living communities and others in exchange for referrals that resulted in more than $3 million in fraudulent Medicare payments,...
FTC warns that assisted living communities cannot take residents’ stimulus checks
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 18, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission is telling consumers to report assisted living communities and nursing homes to the federal government and to state attorneys general if facilities wrongly say they are entitled...
Brookdale to pay almost $1 million to settle Emeritus claims
By
Lois A. Bowers
Nov 22, 2016
Brookdale Senior Living will pay $979,000 to settle claims that Emeritus Senior Living, which it purchased in 2014, failed to refund to the U.S. government overpayments it received for Medicaid services.
Podiatrist to pay $966,000 for fraudulent assisted living billing
By
Lois A. Bowers
May 22, 2019
An Arizona podiatrist has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $965,985 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after he admitted submitting false claims for...