MFCU efforts result in 20 convictions, $9.41 million in recoveries related to assisted living in FY 2023:...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 18, 2024
Efforts by state Medicaid Fraud Control Units resulted in a total of 20 criminal convictions and $9.41 million in criminal case recoveries related to assisted living in fiscal year 2023, according to a...
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...
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...
Big senior living stories of 2019
By
Lois A. Bowers
Dec 23, 2019
Here’s a look at some of the news that occupied many minds in senior living over the past year.
More news for Tuesday, Oct. 8
Oct 08, 2019
Managing care of residents with dementia? There’s an app for that … 4 children searched for — and found — missing resident with dementia … Justice Department, AARP, Oak Ridge Boys launch...
Federal fraud, abuse monetary recoveries in assisted living up more than 600% over last year
By
Lois A. Bowers
Apr 03, 2018
Total monetary recoveries by state Medicaid Fraud Control Units in assisted living-related fraud, abuse and neglect criminal and civil cases increased by more than 600% from fiscal year 2016 to FY 2017,...
Argentum works on Plan B as weather thwarts fly-in
By
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...
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...
A $60 million lawsuit alleging understaffing and fraudulent billing at 45 senior living communities in North Carolina “is an erroneous interpretation of Medicaid reimbursement in the state,”...
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,...