Assisted living owner, three managers charged with defrauding Medicaid of more than $1 million
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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...
Government expects to recover $1.9 billion for 2016 Medicaid fraud cases
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 06, 2017
The federal government expects to recover almost $1.9 billion from Medicaid fraud, abuse and neglect cases that were settled or for which judgments were issued in 2016, according to new data released Monday.
Argentum works on Plan B as weather thwarts fly-in
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Lois A. Bowers
Mar 26, 2018
Argentum is planning to find additional ways to discuss the Government Accountability Office’s assisted living-related report, home- and community-based services and other issues after the second...
Philip Esformes has 20-year sentence in fraud case commuted by President Trump
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Lois A. Bowers
Dec 23, 2020
In one of two cases with assisted living connections, President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Philip Esformes, the former assisted living and skilled nursing facility owner who was sentenced...
Big senior living stories of 2020
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 22, 2020
A year ago, nobody in the U.S. senior living industry would have predicted that a pandemic would upend everyone’s personal and professional lives in 2020. But COVID-19 undoubtedly was the story of the...
Adults 80+ reported $72 million in fraud and losses in 2019, FTC says
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Lois A. Bowers
Jan 28, 2020
Adults aged 80 or more years reported fraud and losses of $72 million in 2019, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
Senator sets Nov. 1 deadline for answers about Social Security scams
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 18, 2019
Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul has until Nov. 1 to answer several questions from the chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging about what the administration is doing to protect older...
Company to pay $300,500 for billing Medicare for unnecessary COVID tests for senior living residents
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Lois A. Bowers
Jun 21, 2023
A Maryland-based company that handles billing for diagnostic laboratories and other healthcare providers has agreed to pay $300,479.58 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it submitted false claims...
Updated: Philip Esformes reaches plea deal with federal prosecutors on remaining charges in landmark...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 02, 2024
Philip Esformes, the assisted living community and nursing home owner charged in 2016 in a $1.3 billion healthcare fraud case that the federal government at the time called “the largest healthcare fraud...
$10 million ‘sweepstakes scheme’ targeted U.S. elderly, DOJ says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Feb 05, 2017
Elderly U.S. residents were the target of a $10 million “sweepstakes scheme” for which a U.S. resident living in Costa Rica pleaded guilty Feb. 2, the Justice Department said.