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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Hospice fraudster sentenced to 20 years in prison, ordered to pay $42 million penalty
By
Adam Healy
May 21, 2024
The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana sentenced a hospice owner to 240 months in prison and $42 million in penalties for charges related to Medicare fraud.
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...
Electronic visit verification will become industry standard in near future, expert predicts
By
Adam Healy
Feb 07, 2024
Electronic visit verification, or EVV, will become industry standard soon, a marketplace executive predicts.
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.
Business briefs, March 13
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 13, 2024
Fillmore Capital Partners gets nursing home fraud suit dismissed … Fortune questions nursing home ownership, quality ties … HHS FY25 budget has $150B for Medicaid HCBS, cybersecurity … CMS delivers...